Kate Winslet Condemns Harvey Weinstein But Is Happily Working With Other Known Pervs In Hollywood

If you recall, Harvey Weinstein was booted off the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences. Why? Well, isn’t it obvious? He’s a perv of epic proportions. The only problem? Other pervs are still revered in Hollywood. I love the way Piers Morgan put it.

Which, when you consider who still remains a member of the Academy, might just strike you, as a little odd, if not bloody, shamefully ridiculous.

 

Roman Polanski drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl, admitted having unlawful sex with a minor, and then fled the country before he was sentenced.

He remains a member.

 

Woody Allen ran off with and later married his wife Mia Farrow’s adopted daughter Soon-Yi. He was then accused of repeatedly sexually abusing his own adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, when she was just seven years old.

 

He remains a member.

 

Bill Cosby has been accused of raping or sexually assaulting 59 women.

 

He remains a member.

 

Mel Gibson beat up his girlfriend and told her, ‘You look like a f***ing pig in heat, and if you get raped by a pack of n****rs, it will be your fault’. On another occasion, he said: ‘F***ing Jews… The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.’

 

He remains a member.

 

So forgive me if I’m not massively convinced by Tinsel Town’s panicky little bout of ethical house cleaning.

In other words, Hollywood is full of a bunch of insufferable hypocrites. Speaking of, Kate Winslet. Let’s talk about her.

It’s epitomized by British actress Kate Winslet, who is suddenly very, VERY keen for all of us to know exactly how far she went to stand up to Weinstein.

 

Winslet, 42, told the LA Times she deliberately refused to thank him when she won an Oscar in 2009 for starring in his movie The Reader.

 

‘I remember being told, “Make you sure you thank Harvey if you win”,’ she recounted. ‘And I remember turning around and saying, ‘”No, I won’t. I won’t.” And it was nothing to do with not being grateful. If people aren’t well-behaved, why would I thank him?’

 

Lest we be in any doubt as to what happened, Ms Winslet emphasised:

 

‘That was deliberate. That was absolutely deliberate.’

 

I think we get the drift, Kate.

 

It was a very DELIBERATE decision of yours not to thank Harvey Weinstein and send him a very DELIBERATE signal that he was not well enough behaved.

 

Of course, this bold, courageous and DELIBERATE action wouldn’t have done a single thing to stop him abusing more women, but I guess it might have dented his ego for a few seconds.

EXACTLY. How ridiculous is it that she acts like she did some grand thing, standing up for women everywhere? Wow Kate. You didn’t thank him. YOU ARE SO BRAVE.

Winslet added: ‘The fact that I’m never going to have to deal with Harvey Weinstein again as long as I live is one of the best things that’s ever happened and I’m sure the feeling is universal. I stand up for myself and I don’t pander to what you’re supposed to do and what you’re not supposed to do. This is disgraceful, despicable behaviour. I hope Harvey Weinstein is absolutely punished within the fullest extent of the law that should be the case.’

Here comes the MASSIVE HYPOCRITE part. Why is she OMG SO OUTRAGED by Weinstein, but she HAPPILY continues to work with other pervs in Hollywood, such as Woody Allen and Roman Polanski?

Last month, Ms Winslet gave an interview to the New York Times in which she explained why she recently agreed to make Allen’s film “Wonder Wheel”.

 

‘Here’s the catalyst,’ she said, ‘(I) probably wasn’t going to get another go-around with Woody Allen, so it’s now or never. Plus I knew my parents would be incredibly proud of me working with Woody Allen.’

 

The Times then asked: ‘Did the allegations against Woody Allen give you pause?’

 

‘Of course one thinks about it,’ she replied. ‘But as an actor in the film, you just have to step away and say, I don’t know anything really… having thought it all through, you put it to one side and just work with the person. Woody Allen is an incredible director.’

 

Then, unprompted, she added: ‘So is Roman Polanski. I had an extraordinary working experience with both of those men and that’s the truth.’

Soooo….that’s all OK? Why is it easy for her to ignore their pervy actions but not Weinstein’s? How are the situations different?

I’ll tell you. One’s a trend. The others are not.

I have tremendous sympathy for all the myriad victims of Harvey Weinstein. These women were treated appallingly and I hope he is made to properly account for his actions in a court of law.

But as Hollywood wrings its hands and feigns outrage, let’s not forget that Roman Polanski was made to account for his actions in a court of law but escaped justice to lead a life of luxury in France.

 

Hollywood’s reaction has been to pretend the child rape he perpetrated never happened.

He keeps making movies, big stars like Kate Winslet excitedly queue up to star in them, and when he wins Oscars, Meryl Streep leaps to her feet to give him standing ovations.

 

The Academy doesn’t even class Polanski’s brand of ‘sexually predatory behaviour’ as being as bad as Weinstein’s, despite HIS victim being a minor.

 

Hardly surprising, perhaps, when you discover that among the Academy’s 54-member board of governors that decides membership expulsions is Whoopi Goldberg, who said of Polanski’s conviction: ‘I know it wasn’t rape-rape. It was something else.’

 

No, Whoopi, it was ‘rape-rape’. Of a child who’d been plied with champagne, drugged and sodomised.

 

Your denial of that simple, provable, admitted fact is one of the reasons, along with Kate Winslet’s breath-taking double standards, why Hollywood remains a morally repugnant and rankly hypocritical place and why predators like Harvey Weinstein felt so emboldened to behave the way he did.

Exactly. They get away with it. Hollywood has a history of looking the other way. The majority of those people lack core convictions. Many of them are only outraged by Harvey Weinstein because it’s the current trend. They HAVE to be appalled.

In reality, many of those people knew about his behavior for years but continued to work with him. Heck, many of them, like Kate Winslet, continue to work with OTHER known pervs.

And that’s why nothing in Hollywood will ever change. Because of people like Kate Winslet.

h/t Daily Mail