SAG Considering Actions Against Morgan Freeman After Allegations

The Screen Actors Guild is n’t wasting any time in considering"corrective actions"againstMorgan Freeman following claims of sexual harassmentagainst the 2018 SAG Life Achievement Award honoree . Freeman , of course , has been one of Hollywood ’s most far-famed actors , having earn a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for 2004 ’s box dramaMillion Dollar Babyand four more Academy Award nominations , as well as a Golden Globe winnings for the 1989 dramaDriving Miss Daisyand four more Globe nominating speech and the Hollywood Foreign Press ' Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2012 .

Such achievement as well as memberships in manufacture administration for all actors and filmmakers have get along under scrutiny , however , in the advent of the#MeToo and Time ’s Up movement , which began with thestudio mogul Harvey Weinstein last free fall . Since then , dozens of prominent industry force have been outed by accuser for alleged sexual misconduct , and in reply , some gamy visibility industry organization are taking further actions to punish those mention in the allegations . The irony for Freeman is that the intimate harassment allegation get along after his gender equality - infused speech at the SAG Awards where he called out the statuette for being gender specific .

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According toDeadline , SAG on Thursday consume only mere hours to go forth a statement regarding Freeman following a news report where eight women alleged sexual harassment and/or unfitting behaviour against the worker . Freeman responded with a statement , saying,“I am not someone who would intentionally offend or knowingly make anyone feel uneasy . I apologise to anyone who felt uncomfortable or disrespected - that was never my purport . “SAG , which honour the thespian in January with its 54th one-year Life Achievement Award , however , is take the allegations very seriously , and issued a statement that warned of potential"corrective action . “The union said :

" These are compelling and withering allegations which are absolutely wayward to all the steps that we are taking to assure a safe work environment for the master in this industry . Any charge person has the right wing to due process , but it is our starting breaker point to believe the courageous voices who fall forwards to report incidents of torment . Given Mr. Freeman latterly received one of our brotherhood ’s most esteemed honors recognizing his body of work , we are therefore reviewing what disciplinary actions may be warranted at this time . "

What those exact action might be are still up in the air , but it ’s completely within reason to judge that should there be more allegations or any legal action stem from the allege incidents , at the very least , SAG could take back the Life Achievement Award and/or previous accolade ( he was nominated for four SAG Awards , winning forMillion Dollar Baby ) , or mayhap expel Freeman from its membership . After all , such an extreme move is n’t unprecedented when it come to in high spirits profile organizations , since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciencesrecently expelled Bill Cosby and Roman Polanskiin answer to their legal fight with sexual misconduct claims , andWeinstein was expelled last Octoberafter the fuss of allegement surface against him .

Whatever the case may be , the reverberations of the # MeToo and Time ’s Up movements - and truly so - are being felt far beyond the convictions and allegation of intimate actus reus in the amusement manufacture , hopefully station a signal to would - be offenders that time have by all odds changed in Hollywood , and those who ’ve already committed such distressing actions that they have n’t totally escaped their past and there will be consequences .