Tuesday, November 7, 2017

There Are Problems in Hollywood - Uma Thurman has been saying this since she was 19



This weekend, we all watched that viral video of Uma Thurman. She was answering a question from an Access Hollywood reporter, who asked for her response to the ongoing Harvey Weinstein scandal and sexual harassment at large in her industry.
 Her response was deeply unsettling. You could feel her rage and see her struggling to restrain herself.
Mashable has uncovered a Rolling Stone interview with Thurman when she was 19 years old in 1989. Thurman, even at that age, and with so much less clout and experience in the industry, bravely talked about feeling objectified by Hollywood.
The journalist, Ben Yagoda, who wrote the profile asked her, spent a lot of time talking about her looks; he even got quotes on the record from other actors about her body. 
"She has this Jayne Mansfield body and a horrifyingly great brain," said John Malkovich. Yagoda also noted that "gasps have been heard in cinemas nationwide when her breasts are exposed in the film [Dangerous Liaisons].
He also writes an incident in which Sylvester Stallone asked Thurman for her number, writing that she said: "I was here last week at the same table," she told the reporter. "
Sly Stallone was at the next table. He was with a woman, and as soon as she left to go to the ladies' room, he asked me for my phone number. I said I didn't have a phone. I kept putting him down. Finally I said, 'Look, I'll go skywriting and write my number in the sky.'"

Read the original story on: http://www.refinery29.com

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