No excuses. It was stupid… To take a childhood from a person is the worst thing there is. He was a filmmaker whose work I admired greatly. I still do. But if I ever see him, I will spit in his face. If he's lucky. Festival organisers rejected German actress Claudia Eisinger's call to lay out a black carpet in solidarity with sexual violence survivors, despite over 23, people signing her petition. Instead, the Isle of Dogs premiere featured a carpet that was resolutely red. Broadly reached out to Anderson to ask if he regrets supporting Polanski, but he declined to reply by the time of publication.
In , when promoting recent film Julieta , Almodovar criticized the limited parts conventionally written for women. Broadly reached out to Almodovar to ask if he regrets supporting Polanski, but he declined to reply by the time of publication. Broadly reached out to Cruz to ask if she regrets supporting Polanski, but she declined to reply by the time of publication.
But Thompson had to be talked out of signing the Polanski petition in by a year-old. After Thompson initially signed the petition, Caitlin Hayward-Tapp—a student at Exeter University—challenged the actress about her support for Polanski. She said regardless of the fact she knows him and the terrible things he has been through, a crime is a crime," Hayward-Tapp told the Independent in Broadly reached out to Swinton to ask if she regrets supporting Polanski, but she declined to reply by the time of publication.
He blamed jet lag. Many targets of cancel culture never enjoy the courtesy of getting their own defenses heard. But consider the likely result of a culture of artistic boycotts. Should we ban, say, Richard Wagner, whose music was adored by Hitler and whose widow entertained Nazis at Bayreuth? How about T. Eliot, widely regarded as the greatest poet of the twentieth century, many of whose poems contain what are regarded today as sexist or racist attitudes?
Should we not read Ezra Pound, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement but also a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II? The trend is ominous, says Alvin S. Felzenberg, a presidential historian and conservative political commentator. Should we tear up the Declaration of Independence because Jefferson had unacknowledged children with his black slave? Send a question or comment using the form below. This message may be routed through support staff. More detailed message would go here to provide context for the user and how to proceed.
City Journal search. City Journal is a publication of Manhattan Institute. 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.
A petition demanding his release was signed by more than actors and film-makers, including Emma Thompson who later asked to have her name removed , Yasmina Reza and Tilda Swinton. Well, eight years is a long time in sexual mores.
Weinstein is now firmly banished and actors are apologising for appearing in Woody Allen movies. Moreover, more allegations have been made against him: in , British actor Charlotte Lewis said Polanski abused her in when she was Last year, four more allegations emerged: former US actor Mallory Millett said Polanski tried to rape her in ; German actor Renate Langer said the director raped her in Gstaad in when she was 15; a woman identified as Robin M said Polanski assaulted her in when she was 15; and a third, Marianne Barnard, accused him of assaulting her in when she was Polanski denies the claims.
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