Sexual Harassment/Assault & Abuse in Hollywood -- Discussion
#1826
DVD Talk Legend
re: Sexual Harassment/Assault & Abuse in Hollywood -- Discussion
Isn't Seagal a total nut job living in another country now, similar to Randy Quaid?
#1827
DVD Talk Hero
re: Sexual Harassment/Assault & Abuse in Hollywood -- Discussion
Didn't Seagal get sued a decade back by a woman who wasn't informed ahead of time that part of the job of being his secretary included having sex with him?
ETA: Found it. http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/04/1...ued/index.html
ETA: Found it. http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/04/1...ued/index.html
#1828
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#1829
re: Sexual Harassment/Assault & Abuse in Hollywood -- Discussion
How the fuck would she put up with that if it was the play he recently directed her in? I am not sure I can buy that one.
Isn't Seagal a total nut job living in another country now, similar to Randy Quaid?
#1830
re: Sexual Harassment/Assault & Abuse in Hollywood -- Discussion
LAPD Opens Sexual Assault Investigation Into Steven Seagal
Multiple women, including Jenny McCarthy, have come forward and alleged they were sexually harassed or assaulted by the 'Under Siege' actor.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...seagal-1074150
Multiple women, including Jenny McCarthy, have come forward and alleged they were sexually harassed or assaulted by the 'Under Siege' actor.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...seagal-1074150
So that is why he took his ass to Russia. That Segal sure is sneaky.
#1831
DVD Talk Limited Edition
re: Sexual Harassment/Assault & Abuse in Hollywood -- Discussion
I'm surprised that nothing has come out about David Duchovny. I thought I've heard stories about him over the years, but I could be totally wrong or just heard made up stuff. Unless he's just kept it separate from his work.
#1832
Senior Member
re: Sexual Harassment/Assault & Abuse in Hollywood -- Discussion
Duchovny had a supposed porn addiction at one point. That is why he broke up with Tea Leoni according to reports from tabloids and such.
#1833
re: Sexual Harassment/Assault & Abuse in Hollywood -- Discussion
He wasn’t addicted to porn. He was a sex addict.
#1834
DVD Talk Legend
re: Sexual Harassment/Assault & Abuse in Hollywood -- Discussion
Yes, I remember something about Duchovny being a sex addict, like Michael Douglas. Seagal is no surprise (in fact, I think I predicted him a few pages back).
#1835
re: Sexual Harassment/Assault & Abuse in Hollywood -- Discussion
Sounds like Ronan Farrow is reeling in another big fish...
"The person they are investigating is as big as Harvey Weinstein! This is going to shock the industry!!!"
"The person they are investigating is as big as Harvey Weinstein! This is going to shock the industry!!!"
#1836
#1838
DVD Talk Legend
re: Sexual Harassment/Assault & Abuse in Hollywood -- Discussion
So now Greta Gerwig and Rebecca Hall have come out saying they regret working with Woody Allen due to his past behaviour. There's nothing new that's come out about Allen - they fully knew before they worked with him... but for some reason NOW's the time to take a stand - after they've benefited from working with him.
#1839
re: Sexual Harassment/Assault & Abuse in Hollywood -- Discussion
Is this sarcasm or are you being sincere? I can't tell because I've never heard anything about Van Damme's personal life to support either opinion.
#1840
re: Sexual Harassment/Assault & Abuse in Hollywood -- Discussion
So now Greta Gerwig and Rebecca Hall have come out saying they regret working with Woody Allen due to his past behaviour. There's nothing new that's come out about Allen - they fully knew before they worked with him... but for some reason NOW's the time to take a stand - after they've benefited from working with him.
Last edited by Ash Ketchum; 01-13-18 at 11:07 AM.
#1841
re: Sexual Harassment/Assault & Abuse in Hollywood -- Discussion
So now Greta Gerwig and Rebecca Hall have come out saying they regret working with Woody Allen due to his past behaviour. There's nothing new that's come out about Allen - they fully knew before they worked with him... but for some reason NOW's the time to take a stand - after they've benefited from working with him.
#1842
DVD Talk Gold Edition
re: Sexual Harassment/Assault & Abuse in Hollywood -- Discussion
Eliza Dushku saying she was molested at age 12 on True Lies set by the stunt coordinator.
#1843
DVD Talk Hero
re: Sexual Harassment/Assault & Abuse in Hollywood -- Discussion
^
Eliza posted this on her FB page.
When I was 12 years old, while filming “True Lies”, I was sexually molested by Joel Kramer, one of Hollywood’s leading stunt coordinators.
Ever since, I have struggled with how and when to disclose this, if ever. At the time, I shared what happened to me with my parents, two adult friends and one of my older brothers. No one seemed ready to confront this taboo subject then, nor was I.
I am grateful to the women and men who have gone before me in recent months. The ever-growing list of sexual abuse and harassment victims who have spoken out with their truths have finally given me the ability to speak out. It has been indescribably exhausting, bottling this up inside me for all of these years.
I remember, so clearly 25 years later, how Joel Kramer made me feel special, how he methodically built my and my parents’ trust, for months grooming me; exactly how he lured me to his Miami hotel room with a promise to my parent that he would take me for a swim at the stunt crew’s hotel pool and for my first sushi meal thereafter. I remember vividly how he methodically drew the shades and turned down the lights; how he cranked up the air-conditioning to what felt like freezing levels, where exactly he placed me on one of the two hotel room beds, what movie he put on the television (Coneheads); how he disappeared in the bathroom and emerged, naked, bearing nothing but a small hand towel held flimsy at his mid-section. I remember what I was wearing (my favorite white denim shorts, thankfully, secured enough for me to keep on). I remember how he laid me down on the bed, wrapped me with his gigantic writhing body, and rubbed all over me. He spoke these words: “You’re not going to sleep on me now sweetie, stop pretending you’re sleeping,” as he rubbed harder and faster against my catatonic body. When he was ‘finished’, he suggested, “I think we should be careful…,” [about telling anyone] he meant. I was 12, he was 36.
I remember how afterwards, the taxi driver stared at me in the rear view mirror when Joel Kramer put me on his lap in the backseat and clutched me and grew aroused again; and how my eyes never left the driver’s eyes during that long ride over a Miami bridge, back to my hotel and parent. I remember how Joel Kramer grew cold with me in the ensuing weeks, how everything felt different on the set.
And I remember how soon-after, when my tough adult female friend (in whom I had confided my terrible secret on the condition of a trade that she let me drive her car around the Hollywood Hills) came out to the set to visit and face him, later that very same day, by no small coincidence, I was injured from a stunt-gone-wrong on the Harrier jet. With broken ribs, I spent the evening in the hospital. To be clear, over the course of those months rehearsing and filming True Lies, it was Joel Kramer who was responsible for my safety on a film that at the time broke new ground for action films. On a daily basis he rigged wires and harnesses on my 12 year old body. My life was literally in his hands: he hung me in the open air, from a tower crane, atop an office tower, 25+ stories high. Whereas he was supposed to be my protector, he was my abuser.
Why speak out now? I was 12, he was 36. It is incomprehensible. Why didn’t an adult on the set find his predatory advances strange — that over-the-top special attention he gave me. Fairly early on he nicknamed me “Jailbait” and brazenly called me by this name in a sick flirty way in front of others (at the time, I remember asking one of my older brothers what it meant). Sure, I’ve come to understand the terrible power dynamics that play into whistle-blowing by “subordinates” against persons in power, how difficult it can be for someone to speak up. But I was a child. Over the years I’ve really struggled as I’ve wondered how my life might have been different if someone, any one grown-up who witnessed his sick ways, had spoken up before he lured me to that hotel room.
Years ago, I had heard second hand that Joel Kramer was “found out” and forced to leave the business. I learned recently that in fact he still works at the top of the industry. And a few weeks ago, I found an internet photo of Joel Kramer hugging a young girl. That image has haunted me near nonstop since. I can no longer hide what happened.
Hollywood has been very good to me in many ways. Nevertheless, Hollywood also failed to protect me, a child actress. I like to think of myself as a tough Boston chick, in many ways I suppose not unlike Faith, Missy, or Echo. Through the years, brave fans have regularly shared with me how some of my characters have given them the conviction to stand up to their abusers. Now it is you who give me strength and conviction. I hope that speaking out will help other victims and protect against future abuse.
With every person that speaks out, every banner that drops down onto my iphone screen disclosing similar stories/truths, my resolve strengthens. Sharing these words, finally calling my abuser out publicly by name, brings the start of a new calm.
Ever since, I have struggled with how and when to disclose this, if ever. At the time, I shared what happened to me with my parents, two adult friends and one of my older brothers. No one seemed ready to confront this taboo subject then, nor was I.
I am grateful to the women and men who have gone before me in recent months. The ever-growing list of sexual abuse and harassment victims who have spoken out with their truths have finally given me the ability to speak out. It has been indescribably exhausting, bottling this up inside me for all of these years.
I remember, so clearly 25 years later, how Joel Kramer made me feel special, how he methodically built my and my parents’ trust, for months grooming me; exactly how he lured me to his Miami hotel room with a promise to my parent that he would take me for a swim at the stunt crew’s hotel pool and for my first sushi meal thereafter. I remember vividly how he methodically drew the shades and turned down the lights; how he cranked up the air-conditioning to what felt like freezing levels, where exactly he placed me on one of the two hotel room beds, what movie he put on the television (Coneheads); how he disappeared in the bathroom and emerged, naked, bearing nothing but a small hand towel held flimsy at his mid-section. I remember what I was wearing (my favorite white denim shorts, thankfully, secured enough for me to keep on). I remember how he laid me down on the bed, wrapped me with his gigantic writhing body, and rubbed all over me. He spoke these words: “You’re not going to sleep on me now sweetie, stop pretending you’re sleeping,” as he rubbed harder and faster against my catatonic body. When he was ‘finished’, he suggested, “I think we should be careful…,” [about telling anyone] he meant. I was 12, he was 36.
I remember how afterwards, the taxi driver stared at me in the rear view mirror when Joel Kramer put me on his lap in the backseat and clutched me and grew aroused again; and how my eyes never left the driver’s eyes during that long ride over a Miami bridge, back to my hotel and parent. I remember how Joel Kramer grew cold with me in the ensuing weeks, how everything felt different on the set.
And I remember how soon-after, when my tough adult female friend (in whom I had confided my terrible secret on the condition of a trade that she let me drive her car around the Hollywood Hills) came out to the set to visit and face him, later that very same day, by no small coincidence, I was injured from a stunt-gone-wrong on the Harrier jet. With broken ribs, I spent the evening in the hospital. To be clear, over the course of those months rehearsing and filming True Lies, it was Joel Kramer who was responsible for my safety on a film that at the time broke new ground for action films. On a daily basis he rigged wires and harnesses on my 12 year old body. My life was literally in his hands: he hung me in the open air, from a tower crane, atop an office tower, 25+ stories high. Whereas he was supposed to be my protector, he was my abuser.
Why speak out now? I was 12, he was 36. It is incomprehensible. Why didn’t an adult on the set find his predatory advances strange — that over-the-top special attention he gave me. Fairly early on he nicknamed me “Jailbait” and brazenly called me by this name in a sick flirty way in front of others (at the time, I remember asking one of my older brothers what it meant). Sure, I’ve come to understand the terrible power dynamics that play into whistle-blowing by “subordinates” against persons in power, how difficult it can be for someone to speak up. But I was a child. Over the years I’ve really struggled as I’ve wondered how my life might have been different if someone, any one grown-up who witnessed his sick ways, had spoken up before he lured me to that hotel room.
Years ago, I had heard second hand that Joel Kramer was “found out” and forced to leave the business. I learned recently that in fact he still works at the top of the industry. And a few weeks ago, I found an internet photo of Joel Kramer hugging a young girl. That image has haunted me near nonstop since. I can no longer hide what happened.
Hollywood has been very good to me in many ways. Nevertheless, Hollywood also failed to protect me, a child actress. I like to think of myself as a tough Boston chick, in many ways I suppose not unlike Faith, Missy, or Echo. Through the years, brave fans have regularly shared with me how some of my characters have given them the conviction to stand up to their abusers. Now it is you who give me strength and conviction. I hope that speaking out will help other victims and protect against future abuse.
With every person that speaks out, every banner that drops down onto my iphone screen disclosing similar stories/truths, my resolve strengthens. Sharing these words, finally calling my abuser out publicly by name, brings the start of a new calm.
#1845
DVD Talk Hero
re: Sexual Harassment/Assault & Abuse in Hollywood -- Discussion
Wow, IMDB works fast
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004273/b..._=nm_ov_bio_sm
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004273/b..._=nm_ov_bio_sm
Joel Kramer is a known child molester. He repeatedly abused children off set of numerous movies and then left their life in his hands on-set during stunts. Child actors were injured on purpose during stunts or threatened with being injured if they didn't cooperate with the abuse. After rubbing his naked body all over a 12 year old female actor at the age of 36 in a hotel room until he "finished", he then the next day broke her ribs in a stunt accident on the set of True Lies.
#1847
DVD Talk Legend
re: Sexual Harassment/Assault & Abuse in Hollywood -- Discussion
Now this really makes me lose hope one of my favorite Arnold movies will ever see the light of day on Blu-ray or streaming.
Last edited by Bluelitespecial; 01-13-18 at 12:49 PM.
#1848
DVD Talk God
re: Sexual Harassment/Assault & Abuse in Hollywood -- Discussion
#1849
DVD Talk Legend
re: Sexual Harassment/Assault & Abuse in Hollywood -- Discussion
Yea, I don't have a problem with these women coming out with their past abuses, but I hate the cases of actors/actresses who didn't seem to have a problem benefiting/profiting off of the already known abuses of others - but decide to take a stand now.
#1850