"Their endgame is 'Let's link O'Reilly with Harvey Weinstein,'" O'Reilly said. After her first post-debate interview, Kelly’s husband also tells her that she went too soft on Trump, and Kelly admits she needs to keep access to keep up their lifestyle. Again, the film makes tolerance of white queerness a kind of litmus test for acceptability. It was early July of 2016. ", In a clip Kelly played of O'Reilly appearing on CBS, he said, "I'm not interested in litigating something that makes my network look bad. The film’s other real-life characters include Oscar winner Allison Janney (I, Tonya) as Ailes’ lawyer Susan Estrich, Jennifer Morrison (This Is Us) as Juliet Huddy, Elisabeth Röhm (Law & Order) as Martha MacCallum, Tricia Helfer (Battlestar Galactica) as Alisyn Camerota, Alice Eve (Entourage) as Ainsley Earhardt, Ahna O'Reilly (The Help) as Julie Roginsky, Anne Ramsay (Mad About You) as Greta Van Susteren and Amy Landecker (Transparent) and Brooke Smith (Grey’s Anatomy) as Fox News employees Dianne Brandi and Irena Briganti, respectively. ... who plays former Fox News host Megyn Kelly in Bombshell, also spoke to ET… Bombshell is already getting Oscar buzz; it’s loaded with major star power: Nicole Kidman plays Carlson, Charlize Theron stars as Kelly, and Margot Robbie is a fictionalized (and, spoiler alert, queer) Fox producer among the lower ranks. ... — Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) ... Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson, played by Nicole Kidman in the film, has not been able to speak in detail about her allegations or be involved in the film because she signed a nondisclosure agreement as part of a … Are we looking at a docusoap (ph)? Sex is sick but interesting. CORNISH: Linda, what were your impressions?

Accuracy and availability may vary. ET, Posted on October 23, 2017, at 4:02 p.m. I mean, what about Gretchen Carlson's role in this? “Thank god more women are being fierce and they have found the courage from within and the bravery to come forward and say, ‘Me too.’ And they’re saying they’re not going to put up with this crap anymore.”. Theron, qui a coproduit le film, a longuement parlé de l’interprétation d’un personnage dont les opinions sont si différentes des siennes. There's a composite, kind of a young producer played by Margot Robbie who is kind of the third woman alongside Nicole Kidman as Gretchen Carlson and then Theron as Megyn Kelly.

And Gretchen Carlson essentially went out on a limb and said, I'm going to take on the guy who's the most powerful figure at the most, to be honest, powerful cable news outlet in the country. For instance, Ailes’ involvement in the racist Willie Horton ads from George H.W.

So the narrative includes a third character, a fictional composite aspiring producer Kayla (Margot Robbie). “It was about two and a half hours every shooting day,” Lithgow tells ET about his transformation. To its credit, the film attempts to use Kayla to show that “leaning in” doesn’t follow predictable alliances. In 2008, he married Kelly, and the two have three kids together. ●. The implication is that because Carr is a Hillary “liberal,” she’s in some ways outside the network’s racial power structure; yet the film could have complicated their worldview by using the narrative to question the way that their whiteness (and willingness to overlook racism) is what allows them to be at the network in the first place. Women are getting brave #truth #Befiercebook #metoo https://t.co/c9LSAHs9Y1. O'Reilly later tweeted an apology to Bolling, who. And in defending women celebrities from the sexist trope of “unlikability,” the framework ends up ignoring other vectors of power, namely class and race. And she wanted to figure out whether she wanted to reveal that, a decade earlier, as a young reporter in the Washington bureau of Fox News, that according to her, Ailes had sexually harassed her as well. A longtime character actress, Weigert famously played Calamity Jane on HBO’s Deadwood -- a role that she reprised for the film -- and therapist to Kidman on Big Little Lies. There are later similar scenes of Carlson as a mother.). He said that the New York Times not printing the affidavit that he and Wiehl signed in January was dishonest. This ignores the fact that, for instance, the overemphasis on those distinctions is itself a reduction of political possibilities, or the way that classism and racism in media cut across such distinctions. Her contract lapsed a couple weeks earlier. Become a BuzzFeed News member. I think if you're going because of how you feel about Fox News, you'll be disappointed in any direction. And she sued him for sexual harassment. And that's a Fox story. In 2016, Fox anchor Gretchen Carlson sued Ailes for sexual harassment, setting off a chain reaction of other women’s accusations — including, most prominently, Megyn Kelly’s — which culminated with his ouster from the network he helped build. With its emphasis on Megyn Kelly’s and Gretchen Carlson’s stories, Bombshell initially seems like a movie version of that celebrity feminist analysis. And you got to remember, this is more than a year before the revelations about Harvey Weinstein that really inspired what people think of as the national consciousness about #MeToo. But other than that, there's not a lot of exploration of, what is it like to have a scandal like this unfolding at this particular place? BuzzFeed News’ FinCEN Files investigation exposed massive financial corruption on a historic global scale.

There is almost an affirmative action spot for such women on cable news and morning shows — including Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Meghan McCain on The View. "O'Reilly's claim that no one ever complained about him is false. Caso não concorde com o uso cookies dessa forma, você deverá ajustar as configurações de seu navegador ou deixar de acessar o nosso site e serviços. The movie focuses on the lead-up to those events, following Carlson and Kelly as they decide to build the case against Ailes and as they maneuver through the media and career fallout that came from their allegations.