Hollywood has been shaken by the on going sex scandal, some prominent makers and on-screen characters having assertions made against them, stemming back decades.
Talking on The Hollywood Reporter’s yearly Actress Roundtable, Jennifer Lawrence — close by Allison Janney, Mary J. Blige, Emma Stone, and Saoirse Ronan — clarified how a culture of dread has shielded ladies from approaching for so long.
“I finally made the decision to stand up for myself, and then I went to go to the bathroom at work and one of the producers stopped me and was like, ‘You know, we can hear you on the microphone, you’ve been really unruly,’” she said.
“Which was not true, but basically my job was threatened because the director said something f**ked up to me and I said, ‘That’s sick, you can’t talk to me like that,’ and then I was punished, and I got afraid that I wasn’t going to be hired again.”
Stone added how women who stand up for themselves are deemed “difficult”, Lawrence continuing: “I was called difficult and a nightmare. I think a lot of people aren’t coming forward because they’re afraid they’re not going to work again.
“You need to be able to say, ‘This is wrong’ and have somebody do something about it instead of saying, ‘Oh, it’s wrong? Well, you’re fired.’”
Various surely understood Hollywood names have been blamed for sexual offense in the course of recent weeks, including Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, and James Toback.