“I cannot tell you the number of young actors I know — some well known, some starting out — who are terrified their sexuality will be revealed and that it will stand in the way of their being cast in straight roles. Now that’s fucked up,” Kate Winslet said in a recent interview with The Sunday Times.
Actress Kate Winslet expressed her regrets about working with certain “individuals with whom I wish I had not.”
Dylan Farrow ripped into Hollywood and the media for ignoring sexual assault claims against her father, filmmaker Woody Allen, in a blistering op-ed published Thursday.
Sometimes — not often — a Famous Person will somehow escape the usually impenetrable bubble of utter obliviousness that encircles Hollywood to speak pure common sense. These comments are so infrequent — and so pleasantly surprising — that they go viral among Americans still hopeful that there remains a shred of competence among those working in the entertainment business.
No joke, starting this weekend with the Governors Awards, this is how a rapey industry, rife with a RICO-worthy sexual abuse problem, intends to celebrate its rapey self over the next five months.
Kate Winslet has become the latest actress to come out against movie executive and Democrat mega-donor Harvey Weinstein, four days after The New York Times reported on a string of allegations of sexual harassment against him going back decades.
As Hollywood’s gender and wage inequalities remain at the forefront of a national conversation, actress Kate Winslet says discussing wages in public is “vulgar,” and she wants no part of it and has no complaints herself about sexism in Hollywood.
Actress Kate Winslet has lent her voice to create a short film for children, to combat bullying.
The film adaptation of Rosalie Ham’s best-selling novel The Dressmaker will debut next month.
