Hollywood hasn’t cleaned up after Harvey Weinstein

Susan Sarandon

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Susan Sarandon is still waiting to see Hollywood improve working conditions for women. The actress said Sunday that she doesn’t feel the industry has yet to take into account the #MeToo movement revelations surrounding Harvey Weinstein.

“I don’t think we cleaned up after that as well as we should have,” Sarandon said during a panel in the 1990s. “I don’t think people talk enough about the people who facilitated the work of Harvey Weinstein in the world and who are still working and bearing the same amount of responsibility,” she explained.

Her comments came in response to Mira Sorvino saying Weinstein “stifled” her career after she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1996. “I stopped being a viable movie actress,” Sorvino said.

Weinstein, co-founder of Miramax, was at the center of the 2017 #MeToo movement and is currently serving multiple prison sentences for rape and sexual assault.

Sarandon went on to point to people still working in Hollywood who “knew when they were sending people to a hotel, didn’t pay attention when someone complained, and thought about the ways in which female sexuality” remained the mainstay of that business. “Since she started her career in the 1970s.

“It’s very confusing to be a little girl and know that they’re checking your viability based on how attractive you are,” she said. “You know that right? You know there’s something going on. They call it something chemical or whatever they want to call it. But it’s part of what you bring to the table. Like it or not, it’s there.”