A Wrinkle in Time director Ava Duvernay called out Hollywood's sexual assault problem while accepting the John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Excellence in Directing at the AMD British Academy Britannia Awards.
As the accusations against sexual predator and disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein continued to pile up last week, Duvernay called out the abuse of actors "an abuse of a very singular kind".
"I regard the bond between a director and an actor as sacred," DuVernay said. "Because if we do it right, we're in a union, a creative marriage, creating life together. So to imagine what's been in the news this week, the harmful manipulation and harassment and emotional violence towards actors in my view is sinful. Sinful because I've held the innermost feelings of an actor in my hand."
DuVernay said that actors give their minds and bodies to filmmakers, and to prey on that is unacceptable.
"I've said it before and I'll say it again," she finished, "we don't have time to work on these dark behaviors, these 'isms' one by one. We should be outraged by all of it, all of the time. Until we are all safe, no one is safe."
When she tweeted out the video later, DuVernay said that the bond between directors + actors is a sacred one "that should never be violated with harassment, harmful manipulation and emotional violence."
Ava DuVernay is the director of Selma and the documentary 13th, and is currently helming A Wrinkle in Time for Disney based on the sci fi novel of the same name. The film is due to hit theaters March 9, 2018.
Lucy O'Brien is Games and Entertainment Editor at IGN’s Sydney office. Follow her on Twitter.
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