OLIVIA TAKES ON WOODY FOR ‘WITCH HUNT’ REMARKS
Responding to director Woody Allen’s “witchhunt atmosphere” remark, actor Olivia Munn said the system is complicit for letting predators back into the mainstream.
Allen, an Oscar-winning director, had voiced his concern about Hollywood slipping into a “witch-hunt” culture in the aftermath of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, where multiple women accused the producer of sexual misconduct.
“The possibility of an overcorrection is much less worrisome than all of the injustices that led us to this moment. Woody’s gut instinct to fear what this might become would be better suited to a gut instinct to hold back an urge that could be wrong,” Munn wrote in an op-ed for Entertainment Weekly.
Munn was one of the six women who came forward with accusations against filmmaker Brett Ratner, as initially published in The Times. The actor claimed the director of The Revenant (2015) once masturbated in front of her and made sexually aggressive comments to her in public.
“When people ask how these men in powerful positions were able to hurt so many people for so many years, I look to the people at the top and ask those questions. The system that lets men like Ratner and Allen back in, is the same system that creates disparity. It’s tilted to roll back into their favour while the rest of us are saddled with a Sisyphean task,” she wrote.
She also called for a “zerotolerance policy” for sexual misconduct in Hollywood. PTI
This is not a women’s issue; this is an abuseofpower issue. We need a zerotolerance policy with actionable consequences for any kind of abuse
OLIVIA MUNN ACTOR