Affleck, 43, said that he “really wanted to support” #MeToo as it happened, however he “felt like the best thing to do was to just be quiet so that I didn't seem to be in opposition to something that I really wanted to champion.”
Affleck was sued over his directorial debut, 2010’s I’m Still Here, by two women who worked on the mockumentary who accused him of sexual harassment and"intentional infliction of emotional distress,” eventually settling the case. It led to him keeping a low profile amid the #MeToo Movement, though he kept working. Now, he’s back in the spotlight with his second directorial project, Light of My Life, a post-apocalyptic drama about a world without women.
He said that it was “a tough spot to be in, especially if you really do appreciate and want to be a support of the side that seems angriest, and the anger is being directed at you.” Affleck continued, “I think there is some truth in that, you know, it isn’t about, ‘This isn’t so bad and that’s really horrible.’ It’s that it is systematic, it’s accepted culturally at its tamest manifestation of it and at its worst, and it all needs to be turned on its head, eradicated and not allowed for.”
Affleck also spoke about the set of I’m Still Here — and made it clear it’s not a scenario he would repeat.
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