Patricia Clarkson shared on Wednesday a series of Hollywood experiences that she had at the start of her career with sexual harassment, including a case where she had a meeting with a “very large famous person, and he was released in a towel”.
“I said to myself: 'OK!' He said, “Oh, I just worked, I'm going to put clothes.” I said, “Yes, do it!” “The nominated actress at the Oscars said on the program” The Kelly Clarkson “while promoting her new film,” Lilly “.
The other body involved a producer who proposed to maintain his hand through an intimate scene after refusing to take a job as an actor because of his required nudity.
“I was offered a game, and it was nudity, and I just got out of school and I said to myself:” I don't really want to be naked “and the producer literally said to me:” Well, when you do the nudity, I will hold your hand “. And I said, “Is that all you will hold?” The actress was impassive. “We tolerated this.”
She continued: “We tolerated so much. But we then started to retaliate as women. We started to retaliate.”
Look at the full interview below:
The conversation occurred with the host Kelly Clarkson in the Wednesday episode of his talk show while promoting the new biopic of Patricia Clarkson on Lilly Ledbetter, the famous defender of women and the equality of remuneration died in October.
“She is just this extraordinary woman,” said the actress, noting that while working as a soil director in a tire plant, Ledbetter learned that she earned 40% less than her male counterparts. “She started fighting.”
While the actress refused to appoint the man who started a meeting in a towel during the interview on Wednesday, it was not the only time when Clarkson spoke frankly about the negative experiences that she had with powerful men in Hollywood. The 65 -year -old Oscar candidate shared A recent interview with Business Insider A “very ugly” meeting she had with Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein, when he tried to push her 2004 award campaign for “the station agent” in the categories of the support actress.
“I competed against Harvey, and he told me that I would never work again,” recalls Clarkson.
She told the point of sale that her relationship with Weinstein had inspired her to play a role in the #MeToo 2022 drama “she said.”
Watch his interview on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” in the video above. “Lilly” is in the rooms on Friday by Blue Harbor Entertainment.
