#TimesUp Activist Jessica Chastain Hires Domestic Abuser to Direct New Film

  • von: Care2 Team
  • empfänger: Jessica Chastain, Freckle Films, Voltage Pictures
Actor Jessica Chastain has been a leading voice for the Time's Up campaign and an active proponent for gender equality in the film industry. In 2016, Chastain launched Freckle Films, an all-female production company. She's called out "disturbing" representations of women in film. And in an interview following Harvey Weinstein's ouster from Hollywood, she said that abuse allegations are a factor she considers when choosing people to work with.

So why then did Jessica Chastain hire known-abuser Matthew Newton to direct Eve, a new film Chastain will produce and star in?

The Australian director has a history of violent abuse against multiple women. In 2007, Newton pleaded guilty to physically assaulting then-girlfriend, actor Brooke Satchwell. Three years later, actor Rachael Taylor, Newton's fiancée at the time, accused him of "two unprovoked assaults," resulting in a two-year domestic violence order against him, which he later broke.

The details of the assaults are horrifying. According to court documents, Taylor suffered a "concussion, bruising and a sprained jaw" and had injuries suggesting her head had been "bashed against the floor and walls."

Despite all of this, Jessica Chastain wants to give Matthew Newton a pass? We don't think so. #TimesUp for rich and powerful men being absolved of horrific abuse against women.

Please join in urging Jessica Chastain, Freckle Films, and Voltage Pictures to fire Matthew Newton now!

Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / Flickr
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