A line that handily encompasses Katana’s entire characterisation in the film.

But he had the most iconic line /s

Yeah, NDAs, for better or for worse, are so ubiquitous these days that I wouldn’t assume anything more sinister than a business lunch being the cause of one.

Without any desire to interrogate this whole thing, I’m just going to say that an attempt to reach a legal agreement, even one including an NDA, cannot and should not be taken as evidence of wrongdoing. I don’t say this to preclude the possibility that Kinnaman did something wrong and I don’t say it to presume…

Counterpoint: Harley works best when she’s the best part of an ensemble. Too much Harley risks Harley burnout.

“Gunn said he was ‘a little surprised’ by how violent the movie ended up being”

What are you talking about?

“this audio has not been made available to the public at present.”-

Two things: 1) grownups are rarely able to manage their personal lives, whether they have money or not. And b) “engaging in behavior that may compromise you” is incredibly broad, vague, and subjective. Meaning it could be anything these days.

Which could be anything from assault to having non-emotionally reciprocal sex— so, yeah very vague.

I’ve listened to the original audio, and in my opinion that is how it comes across in Swedish, perhaps more clearly than in the translation. Obviously I have no idea what actually happened, but it sounds as if what he’s apologizing for is (as he presents it) having had sex with her while not reciprocating her…

I can’t tell from text whether the perceived injury is from emotional dishonesty or physical assault or sexual coercion. None of which are good,but are substantially different from one another.

I dunno. Judging solely from that translation, it could easily be spun as him saying “I’m sorry I gave you the wrong idea about what our relationship was going to be.”

Really? I don’t see this as a slam dunk at all. Not lawyer so I don’t know, but it comes across as kind vague to me. Not saying I don’t believe the woman, not saying I do (though I am slightly leaning towards it being true) but this isn’t really substantial evidence to me.

It’s driven by PR reps who don’t give a single solitary shit about assault victims.

Here’s a translation of the four audio clips, the earliest one first. It’s hard to capture the tonality, and I’ve tried to go for accuracy rather than cleanly flowing dialogue, and it’s rather chaotic at times, but something close to this:
CLIP 1:
Kinnaman: I’m ashamed for how I behaved afterwards.

“ she has posted a number of screenshots of text conversations that she says were with Kinnaman’s agent, which show an apparent effort to work out a legal arrangement (and, allegedly, an NDA) between the two parties.”

It’s kind of a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t situation. No one has to just be quiet and take false accusations lying down, but it’s always a good idea to be mindful that said false accusations are the minority of cases, and we generally have a bigger issue with people not being believed in cases of sexual…

I’m not sure snippets are even going to be worth the trouble.

On the AVClub budget?