Erin Moriarty on ‘Michael’: Allegations of this severity do matter. They are not irrelevant context; particularly within an industry that has historically minimized or enabled sexual abuse and grooming… it’s fair to question the broader celebration of it, and what message that may send to survivors.
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Fucking hell she’s fantastic.
Exactly. I think sexual abuse allegations are swept under the rug and no one is willing to even talk about it. What message does this send to survivors??
Not an especially *suprising* take from Lee given he is a filmmaker, but for him to minimise the seriousness of what happened and prioritise the quality of the film itself is pretty grim stuff.
Moriarty knocked this one out of the park.
Love her
Honestly I think sweeping the whole thing under the rug doesn’t just do a disservice to the people he abused but also to MJ himself. MJ’s dad was abusive, Diana Ross was at best inappropriate as hell, the world/industry race af… there is NEVER an excuse to abuse children but Michael was UNWELL in a predatory industry. People already know he was a pedophile, at least shine a light on all of it.
Respect to Erin for saying this publicly knowing it could cost her professionally. That takes more guts than making the film did
Michael is the perfect example of the emperor has no clothes
Fans of his won’t even acknowledge how EVEN IF (but we know otherwise) no abuse happened that those sleepovers were inappropriate
Literally saying there’s nothing wrong with an adult sleeping in bed with a kid they barely know
Even if there was no abuse (but again we know otherwise), a grown man was using children to live out his childhood fantasies
His fans literally twist themselves into pretzels to defend what they would condemn if it was Trump
She’s great