{"id":2178,"date":"2017-10-15T17:33:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T17:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/10\/15\/bjork-writes-about-being-sexually-harassed-by-an-unnamed-filmmaker-i-was-framed-as-the-difficult-one\/"},"modified":"2017-10-15T17:33:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T17:33:20","slug":"bjork-writes-about-being-sexually-harassed-by-an-unnamed-filmmaker-i-was-framed-as-the-difficult-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/10\/15\/bjork-writes-about-being-sexually-harassed-by-an-unnamed-filmmaker-i-was-framed-as-the-difficult-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Bj\u00f6rk Writes About Being Sexually Harassed by an Unnamed Filmmaker: \u2018I Was Framed as the Difficult One\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/bjork\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bjork\">Bj\u00f6rk<\/a> wrote\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjork\/posts\/10155777444371460\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a Facebook post<\/a> about being sexually harassed by an unnamed Danish director, saying &#8220;it was extremely clear to me when i walked into the actresses profession that my humiliation and role as a lesser sexually harassed being was the norm and set in stone with the director and a staff of dozens who enabled it and encouraged it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bj\u00f6rk has few acting credits to her name, with most notable being Danish auteur Lars von Trier\u2019s \u201cDancer in the Dark,\u201d for which she won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/10\/woody-allen-harvey-weinstein-1201887540\/\" title=\"Woody Allen Calls the Harvey Weinstein Scandal \u2018Sad for Everybody Involved\u2019\">Woody Allen Calls the Harvey Weinstein Scandal \u2018Sad for Everybody Involved\u2019<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201ci became aware of that it is a universal thing that a director can touch and harass his actresses at will and the institution of film allows it,\u201d she wrote. \u201cwhen i turned the director down repeatedly he sulked and punished me and created for his team an impressive net of illusion where i was framed as the difficult one.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bj\u00f6rk says she &#8220;walked away from it&#8221; in part because she had no ambitions as an actor \u2014 a sentiment shared by Sarah Polley in a New York Times essay yesterday \u2014 and recovered from the experience after a year.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/10\/sarah-polley-harvey-weinstein-new-york-times-1201887493\/\" title=\"Sarah Polley Says Harvey Weinstein Is \u2018One Festering Pustule in a Diseased Industry\u2019\">Sarah Polley Says Harvey Weinstein Is \u2018One Festering Pustule in a Diseased Industry\u2019<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;i am worried though that other actresses working with the same man did not,&#8221; she adds. &#8220;the director was fully aware of this game and i am sure of that the film he made after was based on his experiences with me . because i was the first one that stood up to him and didn&#8217;t let him get away with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Still, she does include the somewhat hopeful note that &#8220;in my opinion he had a more fair and meaningful relationship with his actresses after my confrontation so there is hope.&#8221; Read her full comments below.<\/p>\n<p><aside class=\"pmc-related-link sign-up\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Sign Up:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/indiewire.com\/email\" title=\"Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! 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Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bj\u00f6rk wrote\u00a0a Facebook post about being sexually harassed by an unnamed Danish director, saying &#8220;it was extremely clear to me when&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-2178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-z8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}