Many actors are recounting their own experiences with Harry Weinstein, and others are showing support for the victims.
Canadian actor and film director, Sarah Polley, voiced her opinion in the New York Times Sunday Review.
'Sarah Polley: The Men You Meet Making Movies,' circulated online on Saturday and was picked up by almost every media outlet in North America.
Polley recalled her close encounter, and put the microscope to a movie-making culture, heavily dominated by men.
Her experience happened 20 years ago.
As a 19-year-old she said she was saved in the moment when Weinstein propositioned her.
While in the middle of a photo shoot for a Miramax film, Polley was told to leave immediately and head to Weinstein's office.
"In the taxi, the publicist looked at me and said: 'I’m going in with you. And I’m not leaving your side.' I knew everything I needed to know in that moment, and I was grateful," stated Polley.
Upon arrival, Weinstein told Polley he'd helped many female actors kick-start their career through a close relationship with him.
Polley said her publicist and lack of ambition for acting saved her in the moment.
"That's how it works," told Weinstein to Polley.
"I replied that I wasn't very ambitious or interested in acting, which was true," she stated.
Later in the article, Polley questioned her level of ambition, if the had industry hovered less around the sexualization of women and girls.
"I knew after 14 years of working professionally, that it wasn't worth it to me, and the reasons were not unconnected to the tone of that meeting almost 20 years ago. On sets I saw women constantly pressured to exploit their sexuality and then chastised as sluts for doing so."
Women in technical roles were few and far between and were constantly being tested on their ability to do the job, she said.
"You felt alone, in a sea of men. I noticed my own tendency to want to be “one of the boys,” to distance myself from the humiliation of being a woman on a film set, where there were so few of us."
With numerous actors commenting on the Weinstein accusations, some are receiving criticism for their use of language or tone which could be considered critical toward the victims.
Polley courageously navigates a sea of linguistic landmines and recalls what saved her from a worse experience, without casting a finger to victims for failing to act differently.
And under the microscope, she questions the thing that saved her -a lack of ambition for something she loves.
On Saturday morning, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences expelled movie mogul, Harvey Weinstein from the Academy over 65 sexual assault allegations.
