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Emma Thompson is weighing in on the impression Amber Heard and Johnny Depp’s trial verdict may have on the #MeToo motion.
Whereas chatting with BBC’s Girl’s Hour on BBC Radio 4, launched on Thursday, the Cruella star mentioned her opinion on the way forward for the #MeToo period (a motion to assist survivors of sexual violence and abuse share their tales) after a seven-person jury discovered each Depp, 59, and Heard, 36, responsible for defamation however sided primarily with the actor final week.
“One of many nice points to do with that case is fame and the way people who find themselves well-known are handled in a different way and seen in a different way,” Thompson, 63, defined. “The #MeToo motion shouldn’t be going to be derailed by that, however to ensure that it to not be derailed, we simply should carry on speaking. We’ve got to maintain on speaking and refuse to permit it to be derailed by a case [with] two very, very, very well-known individuals.”
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“A case the place the 2 protagonists are that well-known shouldn’t be consultant,” she continued. “And it is simply essential to do not forget that this motion—which is about human kindness and is simply so easy, actually, and has been made so difficult—can not and won’t be derailed by one case.”
The British actress has proven her assist for the motion prior to now. In 2019, PEOPLE confirmed that Thompson dropped out of Skydance Animation’s upcoming animated movie Luck after the corporate employed former Pixar head John Lasseter, who confronted accusations of sexual misconduct.
Lasseter, 65, was introduced on as the pinnacle of Skydance Animation after exiting Pixar and Disney Animation because of the allegations towards him.
Lasseter’s rent at Skydance Animation was introduced in January 2019 by CEO David Ellison.
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“John is a singular inventive and government expertise whose impression on the animation business can’t be overstated,” Ellison mentioned in an announcement, in accordance with The Hollywood Reporter. “He was accountable for main animation into the digital age, whereas telling incomparable tales that proceed to encourage and entertain audiences across the globe.”
A rep for the corporate didn’t reply to PEOPLE’s request for remark on the time.
His rent got here simply over a yr after Lasseter introduced his go away of absence to Pixar workers in a memo that apologized for inappropriate conduct.
“I particularly wish to apologize to anybody who has ever been on the receiving finish of an undesirable hug or every other gesture they felt crossed the road in any means, form, or type,” he wrote within the memo obtained by PEOPLE on the time.
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Following her exit from the undertaking, Thompson despatched a letter to Skydance’s administration, which was revealed in The Los Angeles Occasions, writing, “It feels very odd to me that you just and your organization would take into account hiring somebody with Mr. Lasseter’s sample of misconduct given the current local weather wherein individuals with the form of energy that you’ve got can moderately be anticipated to step as much as the plate.”
“I’m nicely conscious that centuries of entitlement to ladies’s our bodies whether or not they prefer it or not shouldn’t be going to alter in a single day. Or in a yr,” she concluded. “However I’m additionally conscious that if individuals who have spoken out – like me – don’t take this type of a stand then issues are impossible to alter at something just like the tempo required to guard my daughter’s technology.”
On June 1, Depp was awarded $15 million (lowered to $10.35 million by the decide) after successful all three defamation claims over Heard’s 2018 op-ed on her home abuse allegations towards him. In the meantime, Heard was awarded $2 million after successful one of many three defamation claims in her countersuit.
