Uma Thurman interview

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Im glad she feels able to speak out. And the footage from Kill Bill that 'they' decided to bury for 15 years? Speaks volumes.

I believe her. Fuck Weinstein & fuck Tarantino.

Good for her. It's a very vulnerable piece.

I thought this interesting, on the bit where she declined to speak about Weinstein til she was less angry “I used the word ‘anger’ but I was more worried about crying, to tell you the truth,” she says now. “I was not a groundbreaker on a story I knew to be true. So what you really saw was a person buying time.”

And this is pretty powerful, on her rape at 16 by a much older actor
“I was ultimately compliant,” she remembers. “I tried to say no, I cried, I did everything I could do. He told me the door was locked but I never ran over and tried the knob. When I got home, I remember I stood in front of the mirror and I looked at my hands and I was so mad at them for not being bloody or bruised. Something like that tunes the dial one way or another, right? You become more compliant or less compliant, and I think I became less compliant.”

Something like that tunes the dial one way or another is a great way of putting it - I had (have?) some responses to stuff that happened to me as a kid/teenager. There's no great meaning to what the responses are, they're just one way or another of dealing with some stuff that happened.

I hated Pulp Fiction. It made me feel physically sick. Everyone was raving about it at the time and all I could feel was revulsion and very about the kind of mind that creates that sort of stuff. I have long said that men are telling us all the time what they are like in the form of porn and films.

I am very sorry for Uma that she has had such awful experiences. I remember liking her as an actress in a couple of films and then wondering why she turned to doing such unpalatable films.

I do also remember she took part in quite an unfeminist advert, for Virgin Media iirc. She was all seductive to camera and said something like 'Play me. Over and over' or something like that. It really jarred with me and I remember thinking it was another odd choice by her.

They deliberately put her in a dangerous vehicle. Not sure how many ways that can be interpreted.

That video of her driving and the crash was genuinely terrifying. And she's been left with long term damage and pain as a result. It was an appalling thing to pressurise her to do, and then to hush it up for years afterwards is just so cowardly.

I really respect her and hope that this adds to the backlash against the misogynistic HW narrative that lets male directors and investors get away with this.

I read it earlier too. It was terrifying about the car and the idea that a similar accident was scripted into other films is grim.

Poor Uma.

That's hard to read, just binned those dvds