Yeah, it’s pretty fucked that the male actor didn’t say something about the intimacy coordinator not being present, the fact there wasn’t prior notice, and so on. Definitely makes him complicit at best.
Comment on Stunt Performer Sues Kevin Costner and ‘Horizon 2’ Over Unscripted Rape Scene
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
Uhh… Someone was literally raped on set, in front of an audience, and no one got arrested? Are you fucking serious?
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Marlon Brando was a terrible person.
yesman@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
There is a long history of these shenanigans in film. During the filming of “last tango in paris”, the male lead and the director conspired to sodomize the female lead as a “surprise” to get a more genuine “performance”. Roman Polanski drugged and rapped a teenager. The great auteur Kubrick, is famous for harassing and abusing the Shelly Duvall, again, for the sake of her “performance”.
Statistically, for every Weinstein who see’s the inside of a prison for abusing women, ten Woody Alans walk around free. Rape as a sex crime is barely illegal in the US. Rape as a property crime is punished to the full extent…
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Roman Polanski drugged and rapped a teenager
That had nothing to do with a film. He raped her off set at a friend’s home.
stray@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
No, it was a depiction of fictional rape for the film. Given the coercion, lack of protocol, and the way she was physically handled make it a sexual assault in my opinion, but legally-speaking I think she can only complain about the contract violation and retaliatory behavior causing financial damages.