Kangana Ranaut has spoken on Hollywood actor Blake Lively’s allegations of sexual harassment against ‘It Ends With Us’ co-actor Justin Baldoni.
In a post on Instagram, the Manikarnika actor wrote,”Even in Hollywood women who refuse to compromise, they are maligned, and their careers are destroyed. It’s not just Bollywood, similar report called Hema Committee had come out about Malayalam film industry, it is worrying and shameful.”
Kangana Ranaut criticises Bollywood
Ranaut has been critical of the Bollywood film industry. In 2017, during her appearance on Koffee With Karan, the actor accused filmmaker Karan Johar of being a ‘movie mafia’ and ‘flag bearer of nepotism’.
In August, Ranaut in an interview with Mashable India, had called Bollywood a “hopeless place”. “Bollywood is, honestly, a very hopeless place. Nothing is going to happen with them. They are jealous of talent. Anyone they see as talented, they either finish them off, ruin their career, or boycott them. They do such dirty PR to defame them,” she said.
In a podcast with Raj Shamani, the Tanu Weds Manu actor called Bollywood celebrities ‘stupid, shallow’. “I’m not Bollywood kind of a person, I can’t be friends with Bollywood people for sure. Bollywood people so just full of themselves. They’re stupid, they are dumb, protein shake…They are like grasshoppers, totally blank. How do you be friends with such people?” she said.
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Blake Lively’s allegations against Justin Baldoni
According to a Variety report, Blake Lively has accused her ‘It Ends With Us’ co-star Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment. According to a complaint filed before the California Civil Rights department, a meeting was held in January to address Lively’s claims and demands to return to the shooting of the film after the strikes by actors and writers ended.
The 37-year-old actor has alleged that Baldoni discussed her weight with her trainer, pressed her to disclose her religious beliefs and inappropriately discussed his sex life. Lively also alleged that Jamey Heath, one of the film’s producers, showed her a video of his wife naked and giving birth. that both Baldoni and Heath entered her makeup trailer without getting her permission first, “including when she was breastfeeding her infant child.”
Baldoni’s lawyer hit back, calling the allegations “false, outrageous and intentionally salacious”.