Have you ever been sexually assaulted? Do you know what it is like? How about, you get sexually assaulted, and then when your assaulter asks for your forgiveness you decide what that person could do in order to atone for what he or she did. THEN come back to us and talk about what is an adequate apology.

It’s almost as if forgiveness is both optional and at the discretion of the victims. The women Batali assaulted can form their own opinions of him. I’m more for atonement, myself. I don’t really care if he comes up with a pretty apology or tells people to go fuck himself right now. If he spends the next few years not…

You are correct that no apology will ever suffice for someone who deliberately mistreated (or worse) women for decades. There is no magic combination of words to make that go away. These assholes aren’t owed forgiveness. Their honesty doesn’t matter. They are entitled to nothing but scorn. Forever. It was what they…

UGH!! What a tragic choice. I’ve been holding off to not distract from MeToo, but now I can say how disturbed I was by the video of him intimidating his live-in partner by smashing wine bottles and refusing to look at her or speak to her while she begs him to stop. I was a huge huge Depp fan. That all vanished when I…

Besides, what director in their right mind throws things at their star?

I figured Oprah wants to run for president.

Yeah, I remember reading about the filming of Boys Don’t Cry (which has a really violent, explicit rape scene), and the director, Kimberley Pierce, carefully choreographed the scene so the actors knew exactly what was going to happen and when, and they walked through the other parts of the scene a bunch of times, so…

The responsible way to film scenes that involve violence are to have open, explicit communication with the actors as well as repeated checks ins to make sure they’re doing okay. The violence should be choreographed and specific. The actors should have control over the ability to call breaks.

Per Malik’s account, the…

I’m an actor, and what this article describes is so far beyond the fucking pale that I want to go burn things down right now. NONE of this is okay. Any & all of the people involved need to quit with the bullshit excuses, APOLOGIZE & fire/banish this fuckhead director & his enablers.

Tom Hollander would never leave a production unless he had a good reason. He has worked with EVERYONE in the business and he is a complete professional.

So you can molest as many teenagers as you want. But don’t be late to set while you’re doing it!

Why does it really matter why she came forward. Whether she was looking for a payout role or not doesn’t change the fact that it happened. Which they don’t seem to be denying.

“We didn’t violate these women! Let me violate these women to prove it!”

I think this is Reckoning-related, but I don’t think the studio instigated this. There have been a couple months to shuffle him off the project. He’s also supposedly done this twice before while filming other things. My take from what I’ve read is that he knows something is coming out about him soon, and has decided…

I hope it’s Ronan’s next big story.

I have been waiting (impatiently) for Singer to be brought down. Looks like there is something on the horizon that hasn’t leaked yet since he is famously litigious and has been successful at winning past court cases and silencing people online.

I’m guessing the story on Singer comes out later this week.

Sounds to me like the studio is safeguarding the project as the Reckoning continues. Bryan Singer must be seriously connected to not have been named thus far (as well as quashing it the last time it was).

Like instead of a wacky guy in a trench coat, maybe: your boss! That police officer? Your good friend.

Same and included more women of color. Leslie is amazing and should have been in it more.