Christopher Eccleston isn’t afraid to speak his mind about what he perceives as slights in the industry. He’s well-known for his hatred of Russell T. Davies and the producers of Doctor Who because of working conditions on the show, and now in a recent interview, he revealed how women are increasingly getting too much power on Hollywood sets and abusing it by using their sexuality as weapons against male actors.
Most famous for his role as the ninth Doctor in the Doctor Who reboot, Christopher Eccleston has gone on to star in many high-profile projects such as Thor: Love And Thunder and True Detective. However, he almost lost everything as the #MeToo movement was gaining steam, and an actress on a set targeted him to lie about abuse and smear him.
“I did a sex scene with an A-list actress – not Nicole Kidman, who was brilliant – and she implied, in front of the crew, that I was copping a feel. Because she didn’t like me,” Eccleston told The Independent.
He was aware even at the time a mere accusation could ruin his career. The ridiculousness of a woman making such an accusation while filming a sex scene and trying to harm a man because of her dislike of him shows Hollywood’s warped standards of putting actors in such positions, in front of voyeurs, to simulate fornication. And now, women hold all the power to be able to go after a male actor like Christopher Eccleston because of that situation he’s hired to be in.
Christopher Eccleston continued, ““fortunate that happened to me before the Harvey Weinstein stuff came to light, so I wasn’t put in the stocks for it. But I’ve never felt more betrayed by a fellow actor than I did that day.”
Not one to shy away from speaking the truth, Christopher Eccleston said of the woman, “I have to say to you that I would sooner have put my hands in a food blender than copped a feel of that person. It was an abuse of power, what she did. I don’t think that would have happened with an intimacy coordinator on set. I could have been accused of all manner of things… that’s about what passes between actors, with trust and the abuse of it.”
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As more and more women use their sexuality as weapons against men whenever they feel like it for clout and attention, these situations are becoming increasingly difficult for men in any professional environment. Merely being alone with a woman is a danger at this point most men would do well to avoid.
Chirstopher Eccleston has described Doctor Who as a bad working environment as well. He spoke of the conditions Russell T. Davies had on the show with Evening Standard in 2010, saying, “I wasn’t comfortable. I thought ‘If I stay in this job, I’m going to have to blind myself to certain things that I thought were wrong.’ And I think it’s more important to be your own man than to be successful, so I left. But the most important thing is that I did it, not that I left. I really feel that, because it kind of broke the mould and it helped to reinvent it. I’m very proud of it.”
Doctor Who and Russell T. Davies’ team sounds like the kind of place where an incident of feminist wokeness would take place, even if Christopher Eccleston didn’t elaborate on which film he was talking about. With such political opportunists around, he did well to get out of Doctor Who after one series.
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