How Kathleen Kennedy Wants to Fight Hollywood Harassment

Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy is taking a stand against sexual molestation and abuse in Hollywood . During the preceding week , one of the big scandals the amusement industry has ever seen was exposed imply Harvey Weinstein - American film manufacturer , former film studio apartment administrator and former co - chairwoman of The Weinstein Company - who was accuse of sexual harassment and/or ravishment by now over 50 women in the media and entertainment manufacture .

Actresses like Angelina Jolie , Rose McGowan , Cara Delevingne , Kate Beckinsale andGame of Thrones’Lena Headey shared their horrific narration about their confrontation with Weinstein . Their chronicle spurred other actresses like Jennifer Lawrence andRiverdale ’s Lili Reinhart to share their own stories about the ill-treatment they meet from other military man in power . The consequence of the last few weeks have set out a give-and-take about the dark cloud environ Hollywood since its inception regarding women trying to break into the entertainment industriousness historically run by powerful man .

DuringELLE’sWomen in Hollywood issue on Monday Nox , Kathleen Kennedy , president of Lucasfilm - the production company make by George Lucas best known for the epicStar Warsfranchise - give a speech call for the creation of a film industry delegation contrive to develop"new , industry - broad protections against intimate harassment and abuse . “you may scan her full speechhere , below are some of the key excerpts :

“ Increased awareness of the belittlement , objectification , and predation long digest by women who work in film will sure as shooting be one solvent of the exposure of what Harvey Weinstein did and was permitted to do . fair sex who were subject to exchangeable criminal treatment in the time to come will certainly wait to the brave cleaning lady who have come forrader to tell what was done to them as these shameful and also awfully familiar case have been work to igniter . ”

“ The light of public examination will have been strengthened , and we all hope the ability of potbelly , board of directors , and fellow to cover up and visage sexual predators will be severely curtailed . Predators must come to finger that they ca n’t calculate on index or wealth or fame to shield them from the consequences of their action at law . But sexual harassment of women and men , predation , rape , and the misogyny that is the context for this inhumanity will continue unless there is decisive , industry - wide institutional reply that legislates switch rather than hopes for it to chance . ”

“ For the past few day , I ’ve been in discussions with admirer and colleagues , and I want to use my few moment of talk tonight to extend a proposal . The organization that constitute the American film manufacture , the studios , the unions , the society , and the talent agency should immediately convoke a commission charged with the task of developing new , industry - wide protection against sexual harassment and abuse . ”

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Kennedy continued to explicate that the commission , which would be fully fund by the industry , should be composed of,“specialists in undertaking and management practices , lawyers and legal scholar , sociologists , psychologists , feminists , activist , and theorist , as well as people who work in cinema and television”and that the solution would , “ include zero - tolerance policy for abusive behavior and a good , honest , blameless system in which victims of abuse can report what ’s happen to them with a confident expectation that activity will be taken without placing their employment , reputations , and careers at risk”- one of the major reason many woman in Hollywood , and in general , do n’t report abuse .

Kennedy also tote up that she has already,“asked the circuit board of governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , of which I ’m a governor , to take the first steps toward creating this commission”and that the “ metre to begin that body of work is now . ”Since the word about Weinstein , other top Hollywood public figure have been outed as aver abusers , such as Weinstein ’s brother Bob , who is also being criminate of intimate abuse by Amanda Segel , a showrunner for the Spike TV dramaThe Mist , and Amazon Studios head Roy Price , who has resigned from his location due to sexual torment allegations . Considering the news show of late weeks , this may be the perfect metre for leader in Hollywood like Kennedy to take a stand for change in the industry .