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Amy Adamshas a unique strategy for warding off unwanted advances on movie sets.
The five-time Oscar nominee, 43, opened up about her experience dealing with sexual harassment in the work place during an group interview withThe Hollywood Reporterto tout her new HBO showSharp Objects.
“I think most women have experienced it, even if it’s just feeling unsafe rejecting somebody. And apologizing, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry, I must have been sending you the wrong signal,’ when, really, it’s like, ‘No, I think I said I don’t want to go out with you, I don’t know how that’s the wrong signal. I think we should just be friends and I’m not sure why you’re at my doorstep,’ it’s that unsafe feeling,” she said.
“I can’t say all, but most women have had that moment and you question yourself. ‘Did I smile? Was I not direct enough?’ ” she added.
The actress then joked, “There’s a reason I started playing nuns and virgins. I was like, ‘I’m not putting up with that anymore.’ ”
Adams played a virgin (and a princess) in 2007’sEnchantedand a nun in 2008’sDoubt, which told a fictional story about sex abuse in the catholic church.
WhileSharp Objectscreator Marti Noxon, who joined the discussion, said that she has enjoyed watching some of the accused men “paying the price,” Adams said, “I don’t think retribution is going to make me feel triumphant.”
Instead, she said only real change will give her satisfaction. “I’m an idealist — it can be annoying and I’m constantly disappointed,” she said.
“Before the Harvey [Weinstein] thing came out, a young actress said to me, ‘This is going on [with a male producer], is this weird?’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, that’s not OK.’ She didn’t know what to do, and I said, ‘Tell him I said hi,’ because, unfortunately, I knew this person and I thought if he knows he can’t create a silent victim, then maybe we remove that temptation?”
Asked if she has revisited past experiences in a new light since the #MeToo movement, Adams said, “I knew they were wrong then.”
Sharp Objectspremieres on HBO July 8.
source: people.com
