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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