And I see no evidence her propriety wasn’t.

Again: The (relatively young) showrunners and cast appear to have a rapport and comfort level with each other as part of an ongoing months/years-long production, a lot of which can be seen in those BTS interviews with many of them - the Sadie Sink one has been parsed and interpreted to death, so we’re probably not…

It’s very, very common on set for tensions to flare and occasionally insults to get hurled back and forth. And that will never change no matter who’s on a set.

I think there’s a big difference between teasing/being teased by a co-worker you have a comfort level with and maliciously fucking with them for sport or “art”. According to Sink it was the former.

I go by the kid’s words. You do what you like.

By some accounts she is the daughter of another member of the crew. The facts beyond there get hazy at best.

No - it’s a sign that stuff changes on the fly on TV and film all the time, and according to the actor she had a comfort level with the showrunners where it ultimately was not an actual issue, just something they brought up in jest and the Internet briefly ran with. Until the actor corrected the record.

One, actually. Good luck telling the girls to shut the fuck up so you can flex on Kinja.

Cool link. I watched the show and disagree.

Do you understand how often developments like this change on-set regardless of a production, and how the young actor said she was ultimately fine with it?

I mean, sure; you’re certainly welcome to try and rework what she said to fit your thesis of the adult showrunners somehow being “the boys with their crushes” preying on the girls. That’s not what she said when she was actually talking about her literal immature young costars, but go off.

Okay, but here’s the facts: Shit like that gets changed on-set a lot if someone decides it suits the material (as, it can be argued and I would agree, Max and Lucas kissing did). On films and sometimes on TV. It’s not uncommon at all. Failing some kind of horrific Last Tango in Paris situation it’s almost never part…

Yeah, and it’s exactly what I said.

What Millie Brown said is sometimes the young boy castmembers being too much typical young boys on-set got wearisome, and that’s when she would go to hang with Winona. Hardly the same thing as what you’re poorly implying.

So as I said above, the talking point goes from ‘let’s empower this young girl who I feel must have been abused for titillation’ to ‘this young girl doesn’t know shit vs. my uninformed take’.

At which point the new talking point weirdly became, ‘she’s a little girl, she doesn’t know shit’.

There’s a big difference between tensions running high and people getting raw on a high pressure set - which happens with everyone from Steven Spielberg to David Lynch to Kathryn Bigelow - and targeting and abusing women. Based on these anecdotes I don’t see much legit evidence of the latter. I reserve the right to…

No.

Grady Hendrix is the best.

Tim Hunter directed the legendary River’s Edge, and was also a recurring director on Twin Peaks.