You knew me when I was a little girl, Diane Keaton. Have you forgotten me? One month later, Johannson publicly defended the Manhattan auteur and called Ms. Farrow's letter "irresponsible. I think he'll continue to know what he knows about the situation, and I'm sure the other people involved have their own experience with it. It's not like this is somebody that's been prosecuted and found guilty of something, and you can then go, 'I don't support this lifestyle or whatever.
Even the most supposedly woke of celebrities make missteps. This was certainly the case with Lena Dunham who, having previously tweeted "Things women do lie about: what they ate for lunch. Things women don't lie about: rape. This was not the case when one of her writers, Murray Miller, was accused of assaulting actress Aurora Perrineau in November.
Dunham and Girls showrunner Jenni Konner released a joint statement , siding with Miller, stating:. It is a true shame to add to that number, as outside of Hollywood women still struggle to be believed.
Dunham later apologized for siding with Murray, tweeting :. We apologize to any women who have been disappointed. Shortly after almost everyone working in the entertainment industry had denounced Harvey Weinstein, Lindsay Lohan saw it fit to take to social media and defend the predator in a now-deleted Instagram video.
In the video, Lohan says:. I think Georgina needs to take a stand and be there for her husband. I think everyone needs to stop. So, stand up. Roughly an hour after the video was posted, Lohan took it back down, but the internet never forgets. Whoopi Goldberg had been defending Bill Cosby since the rape allegations began pouring in back in She carried on with this stance for a full year, using The View as her rape-defending soap box, and getting rather indignant about the fact that people did not agree with her defending a man with a staggering amount of rape accusations leveled against him:.
And the American courts agree with me, because still he has not been taken to jail or trial on anything. So, back off me! Raven Symone had dodged questions about the allegations leveled against Cosby before taking a sort-of-but-not-really stance in July, Symone spoke on the Cosby scandal on The View :.
And now there are real facts. More people can come up. Shortly after Matt Lauer was fired from Today for being sexually inappropriate towards a female staffer, fellow Today host Kathie Lee Gifford took to the airwaves to declare her support for Lauer, saying :.
No person is perfect in this world. Gifford came under attack from Twitter users who believed her reaction to be highly problematic. This religious angle on the air she uses is inappropriate for victims. Kathie Lee Gifford "Going to Church" right now on the Matt Lauer situation is exact reason why workplace harassment lives and thrives, by reinforcing patriarchal religions that put men on a pedestal and make women secondary in all areas of life.
During an interview with The Los Angeles Times, the actress justified working with Allen despite the sexual assault allegations against him, going so far as to call the director "empowering to women. Whoopi Goldberg proved herself problematic as all get out in , during an episode of The View , the topic of which was Roman Polanski's rape of an underage girl.
Goldberg coined a bizarre and damaging term during her unpacking of Polanski's crime:. It was something else but I don't believe it was rape-rape. Walters said that she knew the prolific director and didn't think that was the kind of father who would abuse his daughter. I can only tell you what I have seen now Prior to the MeToo movement, director Woody Allen was able to survive and thrive in Hollywood, despite marrying his former partner Mia Farrow's adopted daughter and despite sexual assault allegations that he molested his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow.
Since MeToo became part of the conversation, several film stars who have worked with Allen in the past have publicly stated that they would refuse to do so in the future and some even contend that they regret working with the auteur at all.
This does not include Diane Keaton, however, whose career took off after appearing in two of Allen's most iconic movies, Manhattan and Annie Hall.
The actress won her sole Academy Award for portraying the titular Annie Hall in But, in truth, for many British and US actors, working with Polanski never lost its cachet, and arguably had even more once he became excluded from the US mainstream. Sigourney Weaver, Harrison Ford, Johnny Depp, Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kate Winslet and many more have appeared in Polanski movies in the decades since his conviction, and questions about why they were working with a convicted child rapist were seen as tacky, proof of a rigid mind more focused on gossip than art.
Woody Allen is an incredible director. So is Roman Polanski. When the Harvey Weinstein story broke last October, the reaction among the movie industry was wide-eyed shock that someone so many of them knew and worked with could be a rapist. And yet only a decade and a half earlier, Streep had stood and applauded when Polanski won best director at the Oscars, not so much tacitly approving rape as explicitly celebrating a convicted child rapist.
If only anyone had known about Weinstein they would never — never! And yet, for the past 40 years, many of them have been falling over themselves to work with a self-confessed child rapist, even defending him by pointing to his artistic credentials. Reactions to Weinstein come soundtracked with the distinct sound of bandwagon-jumping; thanks to the MeToo campaign, the public mood is firmly on the side of listening to victims, and Hollywood has keenly followed suit.
Sexual abuse is a crime, it lies with all of us to listen to the smallest of voices. This kind of hypocrisy about Polanski makes you wonder how serious the industry really is about dealing with this problem, as it claims to be.
By the beginning of this century, while the general American public remained firmly set against Polanski , the mood in Hollywood was openly in his favour. There was that applause from Hollywood luminaries when he won the Oscar Polanski, of course, did not attend the ceremony, as he was still officially on the lam.
In , film-maker Marina Zenovich caught the mood and pushed it further with her documentary, the queasily titled Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, which argued that Polanski was the victim of gross judicial misconduct during his case. In one of those ironies we can only appreciate in retrospect, this documentary, which presents an energetic case for the defence of a sex offender, was produced by the Weinstein Company. Rittenband was thought to be considering sentencing him to 50 years in prison, which was when Polanski fled.
But Zenovich does not mention how it also helped him. Polanski was originally indicted on six counts of criminal behaviour, to which he pleaded not guilty. As a result, her attorney arranged the plea bargain, in which five of the charges were dropped and Polanski pleaded guilty to statutory rape, which was the least serious charge against him. I wrote about the documentary for this paper when it came out, as it struck me as astonishingly exculpatory.
But I was, it turned out, grossly out of step with the times. By now, celebrities were falling over themselves to defend Polanski.
On Monday, director Roman Polanski gave a rare interview to The Hollywood Reporter , addressing charges that he drugged and raped a year-old girl in I went to jail.
I then was locked up here after this festival [in ]. So in the sum, I did about four or five times more than what was promised to me. On Wednesday, German actress Renate Langer, 61, publicly accused Polanski of raping her on two separate occasions in , when she was Hollywood is giving the wrong message to pedophiles. Indeed, when it comes to Polanski — who also reportedly began a relationship with actress Nastassja Kinski when she was 15 and he was 43 — far too many in the industry have defended him.
Until now, year-old Polanski and his supporters have successfully depicted his attack on year-old Samantha Geimer — to which he pled guilty — as a one-off, an aberration. Polanski, who has lived lavishly in Europe for decades after fleeing the US criminal court system, is the real victim here, they say: He lost his mother in the Holocaust.
He lost wife Sharon Tate and their unborn child in the savage Manson murders.
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