Mila Kunis details sexism she endured from Hollywood exec
Mila Kunis has become the latest female star to decry sexism in the entertainment industry, saying a producer threatened her career when she refused to pose half-nude for a men’s magazine to promote a film.
The unnamed producer pulled out that classic threat: “You’ll never work in this town again.”
Kunis shared her experiences of sexism in Hollywood in an open letter published on A-plus, a website co-founded by her husband, Ashton Kutcher.
As successful as some of her films have been, the 33-year-old “Bad Moms” star said she has endured repeated “moments when I have been insulted, sidelined, paid less, creatively ignored and otherwise diminished based on my gender.”
But Kunis, who is expecting her second child with Kutcher, said she also knows that other women have it much worse.
“I am fortunate that I have reached a place that I can stop compromising and stand my ground, without fearing how I will put food on my table,” she wrote.
She hopes to use her position to advocate for other women.
“I am also fortunate that I have the platform to talk about this experience in the hope of bringing one more voice to the conversation so that women in the workplace feel a little less alone and more able to push back for themselves.”
Lawyer: Cosby is blind, should not be prosecuted
Sexual assault charges against Bill Cosby should be dropped because the disgraced comedian’s eyesight is so poor he Mila Kunis, seen on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” in July, is the latest woman to decry workplace sexism in the entertainment industry. can’t recognize many of the women who have accused him of abuse, his legal team argued in a Pennsylvania courtroom Wednesday.
“In the materials the prosecution has turned over … there are photographs. Mr. Cosby cannot look at a photograph,” defense attorney Angela Agrusa told the judge at a pretrial hearing, according to the New York Post.
The 79-year-old is facing trial on charges of aggravated indecent assault, stemming from a 2004 case involving Andrea Constand, an employee at his alma mater, Temple University.
Constand is one of more than 50 women who have alleged they were victimized by Cosby over the decades. Prosecutors want 13 of those women to testify, but his attorneys tried to argue against that possibility.
Judge Steven O’Neill ruled Cosby’s vision problems don’t matter because there’s no evidence the entertainer is having problems with his memory.
Cosby’s trial is scheduled to start in June 2017.