Why are Woody Allen & Roman Polanski Not Included in Hollywood 'Housecleaning' of Sexual Abusers?

[tevhenna]

Hollywood is rapidly exiling predators. But Woody Allen's movie is still coming out. https://t.co/Y7xpo9jHlQ
- Vox (@voxdotcom) November 11, 2017

Article wonders why powerful figures like Harvey Weinstein, Louis C.K. and Kevin Spacey are all facing the loss of their careers as a consequence for their sexual misconduct, yet Woody Allen and Roman

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[vulcan_rhapsody]

a part of this must be cognitive dissonance, surely? Because they knew for years (if not decades) and decided Allen and Polanski were still worth working with. Now, of course, there are legions of actors who are 'tainted' by their association with him and would rather not have their own choices questioned.

I really loved what Ellen Page had to say about Woody Allen. She always struck me as someone with a lot of empathy.

[sthlmsyndrom]

yeah, like the free pedo pass was given years ago to those monsters and their "past" forgiven and then normalised by hollywood in exchange for prestige, i mean people signed petitions for P and went on record for WA

hollywood seems happy to cast out 'blank slate' rapists bc they can claim ignorance and look like good people by making a tweet, but the whole of hollywood is publicly (not just behind the scenes) complicit with P & WA, and very few of the elite can look good if the curtain falls

[talklikelions]

Because that would mean everyone who has worked with them would have to admit that they cared more about awards or coins than the unspeakable shit these men were capable of. And ego isn't allowing them to admit that.

[pikapika217]

BLOOP

[beaarthursdrug]

Bingo.

Scarlett, Tom, Larry, Alison, Owen, Rachel, Emma, Jesse, Justin, Kate, Colin, Elle, etc.

Really all they have to do is speak out. Do they think they'll lose fans or something? Or is it more than if they speak out, Hollywood will automatically kill their careers?

[inwazyja]

Not sure which Emma you mean (probs Stone), but Emma Thompson denounced Polanski, which is nice.

[inkstainedlips]

We all know why.

[moddchicc]

I saw Lady Bird today and the trailer for Wonder Wheel played before the movie, and it was so awkward. Everyone in the theater was just like '....'

[tegio]

How was Lady Bird?

[flawfreesince93]