'It is very, very hard to talk about, and it scares me,' Casey Affleck said of the MeToo movement (via toofab)
He declared himself an ardent supporter of the MeToo movement, saying it was "preposterous" not to be."Who would not be supportive of the MeToo movement? That's an idea that's even out there?" he rhetorically asked. "That there are some people saying 'We do not believe in equality. We think the workplace should be a dangerous place for certain people and not for others'. That's preposterous.
White accused Affleck of numerous "uninvited and unwelcome sexual advances", claiming he boasted about his "sexual exploits" and referred to women as "cows", and attempted to manipulate her into staying with him in a hotel room. "I sort of decided 'well I'll just stay quiet'," he continued. "Mostly I've talked about it a little bit to honor, that like 'okay this is someone else's experience of this and it is not my experience, but I...
Affleck paraphrased a speech by Frederick Douglass about what July 4th meant to the slaves: "This is not a time to be moderate in our dialogue - this is a time for fire and lightning." After the allegations came out, two more women employed on the set defended Affleck's conduct on set, insisting they had never seen anything out of the ordinary.
"There was a ton of partying because that was the content of this at-times-documentary, at-times-mockumentary, so we're recording everything. It was confusing for everybody, and it was deliberately, and that's my responsibility," he admitted. "The intention was to have the crew as part of the movie. I don't know how much they knew they were part of the movie."
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