Harris Dickinson is calling out a double standard when it comes to the media sexualizing actors in Hollywood. The Babygirl star rece
Harris Dickinson is calling out a double standard when it comes to the media sexualizing actors in Hollywood.
The Babygirl star recently explained why he “struggled” with the press tour for writer/director Halina Reijn‘s A24 erotic thriller, during which he heard “deeply inappropriate” remarks from female fans.
“I think it’s [become] OK to do this to male actors, weirdly, that’s the problem,” Dickinson said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “I think it becomes acceptable to do that to younger male actors, whereas if we’re in a conversation [like] now, I get a lot of women say things to me that are deeply inappropriate.”
In Babygirl, Nicole Kidman stars as Romy, a high-powered CEO who puts her life’s work on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern Samuel (Dickinson).
Dickinson recalled he was told “completely unacceptable” things during the film’s press tour, to which he struggled with how to respond.
Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson in ‘Babygirl’
A24
“You’re expected to just laugh it off, and I think that’s why I struggled with that experience,” he added. “People could say, ‘Well, you did a film that you knew was going to be somewhat erotic.’ It’s, like, yeah, but the film that we made and the approach that Halina [Reijn] spoke about, for me, was something way more unique. It wasn’t a reductive thing in my mind.”
Dickinson continued, “I guess you can’t control the perception of it, and the way that people want to talk about it and the narrative. It’s a strange thing, and I feel like I’m constantly rejecting that a little bit.”
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