Hollywood actor Kate Beckinsale, known for films like "Pearl Harbor", "Van Helsing" and "Serendipity", revealed that she was forced to do a photoshoot soon after suffering a miscarriage. Beckinsale's comments come days after Blake Lively filed a lawsuit against her "It Ends With Us" co-star and director Justin Baldoni on allegations of sexual harassment and about running a smear campaign against her.
The 51-year-old actor posted a video on her 'Instagram' handle on Monday, saying that she was attacked at 18 while working and then fired by two female cast members. "It gets quite tricky when 'a woman complains about something legitimately offensive, upsetting, harmful or whatever in this industry,'" said Beckinsale.
"I was forced by a publicist that I was hiring to do a photo shoot the day after I'd had a miscarriage. I said, 'I can't, I'm bleeding. I don't want to go and change my clothes in front of people that I don't know and do a photo shoot. I'm bleeding out a miscarriage.' And she was like, 'You have to or you'll be sued'," she said in the video. The actor remembered how she had pointed out on back-to-back days that her male co-star was coming late and drunk to the sets, but she was abused in return. "My co-star is drunk every day and he's obviously going through something, and I have full sympathy for that, but at the same time, the whole crew waits for six hours a day for him to learn his lines, meaning I do not see my daughter in the evenings ever while filming the whole movie," she said.
"Complaining about abuse should not beget more abuse, particularly at work where there should be inviolable safeguarding in place and it should not be expected of women who have been harmed, insulted, hurt, shamed or in any other way abused (mostly with at least 100 witnesses) to have to be 'one of the boys' and take it on the chin or face retribution for having been abused in the first place," she captioned her post. While sharing these comments in light of Lively and Baldoni, the actor said that she doesn't personally know either of them and can't speak to what allegedly happened on set.
Quote Quote: "I do not want any male or female with a legitimate complaint to then have that weaponised against them in any industry, anywhere and I say this in relation to Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni because our industry makes things more visible due to the press and the public getting deliberately involved and led towards an opinion that they don't realise is deliberate." "There are far too many casualties of this, many of whom I know personally and it really falls to both men and women in our industry to be part of stamping this out for good," she continued in the caption. Beckinsale's last release is "Canary Black," which is a directed action-thriller movie of Pierre Morel.
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