American actress and Harvey Weinstein accuser Rose McGowan criticized Natalie Portman’s Oscars cape, calling it “offensive” and disgusting”
In case you missed it, Natalie Portman attended the Oscars this weekend wearing a special cape. The on it the names of several women who the Academy snubbed for Best Director this year.
Her cape had the names of directors like Greta Gerwig, Lorene Scafaria, and Lulu Wang; all of whom had been shut out of the (all-male nominated) category by the Academy.
Many people praised Natalie for making a statement with her outfit, but one person was not buying it: Rose McGowan.
In the message posted to her Facebook yesterday, McGowan called Portman’s statement “offensive”. She referred to her as a “fraud,” and admonished those who called her gesture “brave.”
She then claimed Portman had only ever worked with two female directors in her career. “Natalie, you have worked with two female directors in your very long career — one of them was you,” she said.
“You have a production company that has hired exactly one female director; you.” She also accused Natalie of “acting the part of a woman who cares about other women”
“I am singling you out because you are the latest in a long line of actresses who are acting the part of a woman who cares about other women,” McGowan said. “Actresses who supposedly stand for women, but in reality do not do much at all.”
“Until you and your fellow actresses get real, do us all a favor and hang up your embroidered activist cloak, it doesn’t hang right,” she concluded.
Apparently we were not the only ones that saw through the BS. Good for you, Rose!
