As an undergraduate at Harvard, Sorvino majored in East Asian literature and culture, writing a thesis about racial conflict in China.
Although she loved academics, she occasionally auditioned for film roles and sometimes felt conflicted about which path to follow. The elder Sorvino had his friend, Warren Beatty, call and tell her to stay in school.
She listened. She returned to the public consciousness last October, when she became one of the first Hollywood stars to go on the record with allegations of sexual harassment against Weinstein.
In a later incident, she said the film producer had shown up uninvited at her apartment in the middle of the night with what she felt were malign intentions. Weinstein has denied all charges of sexual misconduct. She long suspected that reporting the incident — she told an employee at Miramax — had a negative effect on her career. I won an Oscar. My performances are still comparable to my old performances. So to feel like it was this broad-reaching thing that affected my entire career was really, really hard to handle.
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Marcia Lewis. Show all 6 episodes. Green - Maternity Leave It was a malevolent hand that altered the trajectory of my life and my career. It shapes their entire lives and their potential. That is a horrendous situation to be in as a parent, when your child is suffering and the entire world is turned against her—and excruciatingly mocking and delving into the deepest, darkest sexual details in her relationship with the president.
And blaming her for the relationship when, of course, the leader of the free world has his own free will…. I have so much respect for her and admiration for them as a family. Courteney Cox stars as a lady-porn author attempting to recreate her early-career success by moving to an old house—new location, new inspiration. Sorvino has had to come to terms with the fact that she lost an enormous chunk of her career—prime years particularly in an ageist industry—to Weinstein.
I have to be philosophical about it. For three years, Sorvino worked for Amnesty International as a Stop Violence Against Women spokesperson—and kept searching for more opportunities that would give her a sense of purpose and worth outside of Hollywood. Just the fact that she read it, that she was saying people will understand now, was worth it. Female citizens are not free if they live in bodily fear.
To that end, I recently attended a meeting, organized by a group called Peace Over Violence led by Patti Giggans ; Kimberle Crenshaw, co-founder of the African American Policy Forum; and The Vagina Monologues playwright Eve Ensler — who founded One Billion Rising a movement to end rape and sexual violence against women — to brainstorm on actionable ideas to combat this pandemic of sexual misconduct in our industry and beyond.
It was an inspiring, emotional evening, resulting in an impending initiative to be launched soon. Some key takeaways included:. Far too many men of power have used these legal agreements to intimidate and silence their victims. That education on what our rights as humans are, in the workplace, on campuses, in relationships, etc.
It is vital that victims have a place to turn to. SAG also has a sexual harassment hotline — — and a pathway to file a complaint online. If this whole experience has taught us anything, it is that we are not alone, and that there is solidarity, love and action possible as a group as soon as we have the courage to raise our voices.
Together, we are changing the culture for the better, for the day our children will never have to fear or endure this horror again. A version of this story first appeared in the Women in Entertainment Power issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day.
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