Rose McGowanhas tweeted a semi-apology after slammingNatalie Portman‘s Oscars protest.
A week after criticizing Portman in a Facebook post and asserting her “Oscar ‘protest’” was “more like an actress acting the part of someone who cares,” McGowan has refocused her message to include all voices speaking out against injustice.
While walking the red carpet before the recent ceremony, Portman, 38, wore a black capeembroidered with the namesof several female directors like Greta Gerwig and Lulu Wang who were snubbed for Best Director nominations — which activist and actress McGowan originally said she found “deeply offensive to those of us who actually do the work.”
Portman later responded to McGowan’s critique in a statement hours after McGowan’s lengthy Facebook post.
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McGowan also argued that Portman is “the problem” because she claimed the actress has only “worked with two female directors in your very long career- one of them was you,” adding that Portman’s production company, Handsomecharlie Films, “has hired exactly one female director- you.”
“You ‘A-listers’ could change the world if you’d take a stand instead of being the problem. Yes, you, Natalie. You are the problem. Lip service is the problem,” McGowan added.
Portman specifically responded to that part of McGowan’s post as well, saying that she’s tried to work with other female directors but the projects haven’t worked out.
“It is true I’ve only made a few films with women. In my long career, I’ve only gotten the chance to work with female directors a few times – I’ve made shorts, commercials, music videos and features with Marya Cohen, Mira Nair, Rebecca Zlotowski, Anna Rose Holmer, Sofia Coppola, Shirin Neshat and myself,” Portman continued. “Unfortunately, the unmade films I have tried to make are a ghost history.”
Portman’s cape at the Oscars.ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty
In 2018,Portman also made headlineswhen she called out the Golden Globes for its exclusion of female nominees in the best director category while presenting the award alongside Ron Howard.
“And here are all the male nominees,” she said before introducing the five men up for the award at the time.
There have only been five female directing nominees inthe Oscars‘ 92-year history.
In 2010, Kathryn Bigelow became the first and so far only woman to win the best director award for her film,The Hurt Locker.
source: people.com
