Olivia Munn was amazed to see Hollywood care about #MeToo
Hollywood made the #MeToo movement go global in late 2017 — in fact, the movement had started a decade earlier, in 1998 — but actor Olivia Munn believes that the entertainment industry is more talk and less work on tackling sexual harassment and abuse.
The actor, who was one of the several women to accuse director Brett Ratner of sexual misconduct last year, says that she was surprised by the outrage after the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke out. The Hollywood producer was exposed by a New York Times investigative report.
“I remember where I was when I heard that people were getting outraged about Weinstein and I thought, ‘People care? They didn’t used to care, nobody cared.’ For so long, people turned a blind eye. When it hits their movie, their show, their bottom line — no one wants it to happen, but when it does happen, what do you do? Hollywood is really big on symbolism but crappy on change,” Munn tells Cosmopolitan US magazine.
The 38-year-old actor says that she was shocked by the piece of advice she was given after she went public with allegations against Ratner. She claimed that the director had performed a sex act on himself in front of her in 2004 on the sets of After the Sunset.
“The advice you’re given is: their power trumps your power and right and wrong doesn’t really come into play,” she recalls. But Munn was unafraid of the repercussions of raising her voice. She says, “I’m not for sale... If speaking up costs me my career, I don’t want it anyway.” PTI
OLIVIA MUNN, ONE OF THE WOMEN WHO HAS BEEN VOCAL ABOUT THE SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN HOLLYWOOD, SAYS THAT SHE WAS TOLD TO KEEP QUIET