Samantha Morton looks back on her standout roles in ‘The Whale’ and ‘She Said,’ and teases her forthcoming album.
represented something deeply personal for Morton, both because she’d crossed paths with the real Perkins and because she’s wrangled with plenty of industry abuse and misogyny in her own career.
“I haven’t gone on the record talking about those instances and I think the fact that Zelda did…” She shakes her head as she tries to find the right words to talk about Perkins and other whistleblowers. “The reality of living through that for those women must be painful and vulnerable and frightening. You’re going to risk everything to speak your truth, and to protect others, to make sure it doesn’t happen to anyone else.
Morton has publicly discussed some of her Hollywood disappointments, like losing out on a leading role in the 2005 Miramax movie“Harvey had said, apparently, that I was unfuckable, so I wasn’t going to be cast,” she says with a shrug. She believes that Weinstein’s disdain for her has a nasty backstory, however.” Morton says, recalling that he offered her a part in a Miramax movie that she found misogynistic. She turned it down.
“I’ve had to come to terms with a lot of my treatment, but what do we do about it now?” she asks, her grin morphing into a grimace. If she comes forward with specifics, she says, it will hang over her husband and children, not to mention the perpetrators’ families. But she’s glad she can even contemplate it. “It’s interesting that we’re even having this conversation.
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