Get the latest gossip
11 Celebrity Women Who've Spoken Out About The Ways The "Male Gaze" Has Impacted Their Personal And Professional Lives
“I am not a piece of meat that a man gets to utilize for his pleasure..."
Sweeney addressed some of the controversy at the New York premiere of her newest film, Echo Park, stating, "I think that it's more fun to see everybody else talk about it," before boldly adding, "I pitched it." in which she explains her motive behind one of the video's more controversial moments during which she douses herself in whiskey and faux-uses a urinal "We’re kind of just having fun being a bit sarcastic with it, it’s very slapstick, and very on the nose." The now-36-year-old claimed that despite knowing how the male gaze exploits women, that didn't occur with Poor Things, stating, "That does happen and is a huge systemic problem in so much of film and television, but here that was very much not the case."
Or read this on BuzzFeed