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No surprise here. Sir Ian McKellen claims that some actresses tell directors they will sleep with them to win roles.
Having actresses, and actors, trade sexual favors for hollywood fame should shock no one.
Allegations of sexual assault without due process and done in complete anonymity, will never lead to a true flushing out of the real sexual predators, from just the average casting couch deal…or as McKellen reveals, the “DRR”.
Via The Daily Mail UK…
Stage and screen star Sir Ian McKellen has spoken out about the sex scandal in film and theatre, claiming women are partly responsible because some tell directors they’ll sleep with them to win roles.
‘People must be called out and it’s sometimes very difficult for victims to do that,’ the Lord Of The Rings star said in a talk at the Oxford Union recently.
‘I hope we’re going through a period that will help to eradicate it altogether. But from my own experience, when I was starting acting in the early Sixties, the director of the theatre I was working at showed me some photographs he got from women who were wanting jobs. . . some of them had at the bottom of their photograph ‘DRR’ — directors’ rights respected. In other words, if you give me a job, you can have sex with me.
‘That was commonplace from people who proposed that they should be a victim. Madness. People have taken advantage of that and encouraged it and it absolutely will not do.’
Despite his support for victims coming forward, the six-time Olivier Award-winner, 78, admitted he’s worried about the impact of wrongful accusations, adding: ‘I assume nothing but good will come out of these revelations, even though some people get wrongly accused — there’s that side of it as well.’
Having worked briefly with disgraced House Of Cards actor Kevin Spacey in 2004, when Spacey was artistic director at the Old Vic in London, Sir Ian, who came out in 1988 to lobby for gay rights in the UK, added the timing of Spacey’s own coming out was not ideal.
‘The circumstances in which he chose to do it are reprehensible because it linked alleged underage sex with a declaration of sexuality.’
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SPOKEN like a TRUE FREEMASON…anyone with the SIR before his name means he was KNIGHTED BY THE QUEEN and he is a BRITISH FREEMASON…any other MEN who are FREEMASONS can not be called SIR
they do not allow WINDOWS IN THEIR TEMPLES..they do not allow WOMAN to join..HEY THEY ARE ONLY GOOD FOR ONE THING to be used and belong in the kitchen….WELL boys and girls..their days are coming to an END..THESE OLD FARTS are finished!!!! along with their god they worship SATAN
This should come as NO surprise to anyone who has been ‘around the block’ so to speak…Guess there are a few ‘wannabe’ saints out there that have never been ‘groped’ or seriously backed against a wall by an aggressive female…and depending on the when and where, the fortunate male usually responds…albeit the “butches” believe that this should be THEIR domain…wonder what they have to offer???