“I mean, it’s an excruciating choice for any woman to make this kind of decision, because before the environment of what you’re in right now you’re automatically called a liar, not to be believed, worse,” Carlson said of her decision to accuse Ailes. But its selective story about gender — and its refusal to complicate its racial perspective — missed an opportunity to provide a more nuanced analysis about how power works. Robbie, who previously earned an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Tonya Harding in I, Tonya, plays an amalgamation of the women who came forward with accusations against Ailes. “I put on that fat suit and those frumpy costumes and it took about five seconds to feel like the man.”. Similarly, it’s through Kayla and Carr that we are introduced to Kelly’s white Santa moment. It would be more interesting if the film had helped explain — rather than participate in — the media’s normalization of radical, right-wing white women with racist, anti-gay, and anti-feminist views. Still paid $32m https://t.co/elekogWOee, The Times also released audio of an interview O'Reilly gave the reporters who reported the $32 million settlement. ... — Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) ... Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson, played by Nicole Kidman in the film, has not been able to speak in detail about her allegations or be involved in the film because she signed a nondisclosure agreement as part of a … To be legible as a mainstream movie, Bombshell has to participate in the kinds of narratives promoted by Fox News and mainstream media itself. “This film is a very powerful film… and Charlize really sort of championed getting it made,” Kidman previously revealed to ET about her co-star’s role as a producer on the film. Respectivement Megyn Kelly et Gretchen Carlson, anciennes présentatrices de Fox News. While speaking with ET, former FOX News host Abby Huntsman, who is portrayed by Ashley Greene in the film, reflected on everything that happened with Ailes. The movie’s introduction of white queerness into the identity mix is important. Theron remains in the elevator, scowling as the other two women walk into the Fox News office. Gretchen Carlson — in many ways the film’s most unambiguous hero — attempts to make Kayla part of her team, pitching her on a kind of sisterhood to get to the top together. “When I take roles now, it’s a lot of like, ‘Oh, I’m going to play the husband role to Charlize Theron and be the supporting actor in this. The implication is that because Carr is a Hillary “liberal,” she’s in some ways outside the network’s racial power structure; yet the film could have complicated their worldview by using the narrative to question the way that their whiteness (and willingness to overlook racism) is what allows them to be at the network in the first place. Bombshell was originally titled Fair and Balanced, which is, arguably, a more honest description of the kind of Hollywood-friendly liberal recuperation of Fox News culture that it’s actually portraying. The trick is, you know, you heard Kate McKinnon in that clip give a very full-throated explanation of what that character thinks Fox News is. ET, Posted on October 23, 2017, at 4:02 p.m. Bombshell isn’t just about Carlson’s or Kelly’s stories. But it’s necessary to question the ways Bombshell uses white femininity and queerness to create audience identification. So the narrative includes a third character, a fictional composite aspiring producer Kayla (Margot Robbie). I think what they're trying to do is, you know, make one of these politics-as-drama stories. Bombshell suggests Carlson is fired because she refuses to toe the company’s sexist party line. With the film now in theaters, ET breaks down the ensemble of stars and who they’re portraying in the film: Theron, who won an Oscar for portraying Aileen Wuornos in Monster, takes on the role of Kelly, easily the most complicated and conflicted character of the actress’ career. No. For instance, Ailes’ involvement in the racist Willie Horton ads from George H.W. I think if you're going because of how you feel about Fox News, you'll be disappointed in any direction. While boasting a star-studded cast, the film's story is told through the eyes of news anchors Gretchen Carlson (Kidman) and Megyn Kelly (Theron), as well as a … Kate McKinnon as Jess Carr and Margot Robbie as Kayla Pospisil (composite characters). Yet what forces are represented as causing the misalignments are telling. We Insist: A Timeline Of Protest Music In 2020. On Monday, Megyn Kelly, a former Fox News anchor who now heads her own morning show at NBC, addressed the latest settlement on her program. In 2016, Fox anchor Gretchen Carlson sued Ailes for sexual harassment, setting off a chain reaction of other women’s accusations — including, most prominently, Megyn Kelly’s — which culminated with his ouster from the network he helped build. This week, O’Reilly used his one-time friendly relationships with his former colleagues as a way to defend his own reputation. She tells her lawyers that Ailes has made comments like “You’re sexy but you’re too much work” and “to get ahead you have to give a little head.” Not incidentally, during her meeting with her lawyers, they bring up that she graduated summa cum laude from Stanford to emphasize her toughness in the battle ahead, credentials seemingly meant to remind viewers that she’s more impressive than she’s given credit for. And in defending women celebrities from the sexist trope of “unlikability,” the framework ends up ignoring other vectors of power, namely class and race. Bombshell is already getting Oscar buzz; it’s loaded with major star power: Nicole Kidman plays Carlson, Charlize Theron stars as Kelly, and Margot Robbie is a fictionalized (and, spoiler alert, queer) Fox producer among the lower ranks. CORNISH: Linda, what were your impressions? I admired her sharpness, her wit. Are we looking at a comedy? In an interview with the New York Times, Theron mentioned the inclusion of the white Santa moment as one of the ways the film didn’t shy away from Kelly’s complexities. In order to be a more universal, 2019-style story, the movie knows it can’t just focus on two rich, powerful straight white celebrities. Contact Blake Montgomery at blake.montgomery@buzzfeed.com. There's a composite, kind of a young producer played by Margot Robbie who is kind of the third woman alongside Nicole Kidman as Gretchen Carlson and then Theron as Megyn Kelly. THROWING SHADE. Nicole Kidman Says Meryl Streep Insisted She Join 'Bombshell' Cast (Exclusive), Charlize Theron Responds to Megyn Kelly's Praise of Her 'Bombshell' Role, Charlize Theron on Nicole Kidman's Reaction to Her 'Bombshell' Transformation. When Kelly is dealing with her post-Trump interview fallout, her husband says, “Honey, get real, you are the establishment.” He seems to be referring to the fact that Fox News has become part of the mainstream media. Theron and Kidman play real-life reporters Megyn Kelly and Gretchen Carlson, while Robbie stars as the fictional news producer Kayla Pospisil in the movie, directed by … Best known for his roles of Paul Young on Desperate Housewives and Herman “Duck” Phillips on Mad Men, Moses takes on the role of one of Ailes’ key producers and executives at Fox News. “Why wouldn’t you ask before you bring this man back in the workplace and unleash him on the workforce?” she asked. In the opening scenes, Kelly — whom Theron portrays brilliantly, capturing everything from Kelly’s confident gait to the husky undertones of her voice — speaks directly to viewers as she takes us through the different floors of the Fox building, including the floor where the Murdochs (owners of Fox) operate and the floor where Roger Ailes (the chair and CEO) holds court. "This is not unique to Fox News. Looks like your browser doesn't support JavaScript. The movie defines Trump’s, Ailes’, and Fox News’ politics as problematic exclusively through gender, rather than also contextualizing gender within the network’s racial politics. What a class act you are, coming to my baby shower. And Gretchen Carlson essentially went out on a limb and said, I'm going to take on the guy who's the most powerful figure at the most, to be honest, powerful cable news outlet in the country. C’est une productrice associée de Fox News. The Megyn Kelly we meet here is decidedly not the one who deployed her prosecutorial skills on her show The Kelly File to stoke racist conspiracy theories or lecture viewers about the whiteness of Jesus and Santa. Blake Montgomery is a reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in San Francisco. Want to support our journalism? ", Gretchen Carlson, another former Fox News anchor who alleged harassment against Fox News CEO and cofounder Roger Ailes and later settled with the network for $20 million, called the new allegations and settlement "horrifying. O'Reilly told the Times, “I never mistreated anyone," and said the public outcry over allegations against him were "politically and financially motivated. CORNISH: The movie tries to kind of set the scene about the culture of Fox in other ways. 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Just as Bill O'Reilly had wanted to shield his children from the allegations against him, I hope he will honor my request and avoid any future mentions of my son. Utilizamos cookies, próprios e de terceiros, que o reconhecem e identificam como um usuário único, para garantir a melhor experiência de navegação, personalizar conteúdo e anúncios, e melhorar o desempenho do nosso site e serviços. Both Carlson and Kelly left Fox News after accusing their former boss, the late Roger Ailes, of sexual harassment. He is not one of them.”, As for the personal notes that O’Reilly shared on his website, Kelly added, “It’s right out of the playbook of a lot of these guys. With its emphasis on Megyn Kelly’s and Gretchen Carlson’s stories, Bombshell initially seems like a movie version of that celebrity feminist analysis. Alessa Dominguez is a culture writer for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York. Carlson is an unambiguous hero in part because she is seen as refusing to sell out to Fox News’ politics, which is only possible because her racial and trans politics aren’t represented in the film. “Litigations happen all the time, a lot of them are nonsense and you pay some small amount to make them go away,” Kelly, a former lawyer, said. It's certainly not a comedy. A longtime character actress, Weigert famously played Calamity Jane on HBO’s Deadwood -- a role that she reprised for the film -- and therapist to Kidman on Big Little Lies. You can read them on https://t.co/rryWmyXe7C, Carlson responded on Twitter: "So what. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. Namely, that the distinction of liberal versus conservative, framed through debates about white feminism or homonormative gay rights, are somehow the most important political distinctions. According to the Times, the allegations included "repeated harassment, a nonconsensual sexual relationship and the sending of gay pornography and other sexually explicit material to [the victim]. The Saturday Night Live star, who has made memorable film appearances in Ghostbusters and Yesterday, plays a Bill O’Reilly producer and co-worker to Robbie’s character, who transfers from Carlson’s team to O’Reilly’s. Later, Colbert pressed Carlson to explain how she, as a “deeply intelligent, well-educated woman” ended up seeming so “fiercely anti-intellectual” in her role on Fox & Friends. Unlike others who left Fox News amid public allegations and extensive investigations, I parted ways with Fox News in an amicable way and any reference to a firing is flatly wrong. “To the extent that people can be brainwashed within corporate cultures and become part of a cult, you know, that can happen to people,” Carlson said, speaking in general terms to avoid breaking her non-disclosure agreement. In a pair of interviews with Stephen Colbert and Seth … “Maybe,” she says, suggesting she’d ultimately break through that muzzle, while also presenting her as the heroic voice that made Bombshell possible. A previous version of this post stated that she thanked him for promoting her own book. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. But after that news broke over the weekend, their back-to-back appearances Wednesday night all of a sudden got a lot more interesting. Caso não concorde com o uso cookies dessa forma, você deverá ajustar as configurações de seu navegador ou deixar de acessar o nosso site e serviços. Last updated on October 23, 2017, at 5:16 p.m. FOLKENFLIK: Well, I think Megyn Kelly, it's almost as though she delivers the final blow. My parting from Fox News was in no way connected to the tragic news of my son's passing. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record. By failing to contextualize their race and class, Bombshell overlooks how complicated the real women who ousted Roger Ailes are. Lizzo Says VOTE: Shop the Limited Edition Quay x Lizzo Mask Before It’s Gone. I believe it is beyond inappropriate for anyone to bring in the tragic death of my son Eric Chase Bolling. In a letter, Megyn Kelly thanked Bill O'Reilly for promoting her husband's book. “So when Margot and I came in, we went, ‘Yeah, of course, we want to be there, we want to support you. In the film, she takes on the role of the former FOX News personality and co-host of The Five. They are “establishment” in vague terms of class and media positioning, but can never be overtly represented as the establishment as powerful white women because then the film’s message would get too complicated. She wanted to see the landscape. Tellingly, though, it isn’t a significant part of the film’s actual narrative — it’s just included when Kayla watches a YouTube clip with Carr. (Contains spoilers. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by Verb8tm, Inc., an NPR contractor, and produced using a proprietary transcription process developed with NPR. Brunt is a novelist and former president and CEO of the cybersecurity firm Authentium. In a pair of interviews with Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers, the former Fox News hosts put their old colleague (and network) on blast. “Bombshell” was written by Charles Randolph and is helmed by director Jay Roach. As a neophyte associate producer (and, as we later learn, a queer woman), she helps expand the film’s depiction of power, both in terms of its identity palette and in giving a view from someone of a lower status. Bolling later issued a statement rebuking O'Reilly. In fact, the film only attempts to bring in race in passing, as background information. But by failing to bring race into its analysis, it falls into the same simplistic empowerment narrative, though now with a queer twist. She said it was the combination of O’Reilly’s claim about never having a complaint against him and the enormous $32 million settlement that prompted her to address it. How Bill O'Reilly ended his interview with The Times: https://t.co/Yg1Yf7cIhV. But other than that, there's not a lot of exploration of, what is it like to have a scandal like this unfolding at this particular place? The Murdochs and Ailes had basically settled on her as the future face and star of Fox News. “Thank god more women are being fierce and they have found the courage from within and the bravery to come forward and say, ‘Me too.’ And they’re saying they’re not going to put up with this crap anymore.”. ET. Most importantly, though, neither Kelly’s husband nor Kayla mean that Carlson or Kelly are the establishment as powerful white women in media. The fact that longtime network fixture Tamron Hall was passed over in the process is another reminder of the politics about race and gender in the media that Bombshell fails to acknowledge. The film’s other real-life characters include Oscar winner Allison Janney (I, Tonya) as Ailes’ lawyer Susan Estrich, Jennifer Morrison (This Is Us) as Juliet Huddy, Elisabeth Röhm (Law & Order) as Martha MacCallum, Tricia Helfer (Battlestar Galactica) as Alisyn Camerota, Alice Eve (Entourage) as Ainsley Earhardt, Ahna O'Reilly (The Help) as Julie Roginsky, Anne Ramsay (Mad About You) as Greta Van Susteren and Amy Landecker (Transparent) and Brooke Smith (Grey’s Anatomy) as Fox News employees Dianne Brandi and Irena Briganti, respectively. Become a BuzzFeed News member. And yet, behind the scenes, woman after woman came forward to reveal the culture that Ailes had created at Fox, which was one that really enabled and fostered a climate that allowed him to sexually harass women for decades. As the film lays out its story, it narratively emphasizes the importance of Kelly and Carlson’s breaking with the sexism of conservative media orthodoxy, as if this means that they were ideologically independent-minded, rather than also complicit with that orthodoxy. Bombshell, the new Jay Roach movie about the women of Fox News who took down chair Roger Ailes, unveils its story almost like a procedural. Angela Weiss / Getty Images, Jamie Mccarthy / Getty Images, stoke racist conspiracy theories or lecture viewers about the whiteness of Jesus, lacking any morning show hosting experience, longtime network fixture Tamron Hall was passed over, a majority of white women voted for Trump, no counterpart, for instance, of radical, left-wing women of color pundits or media figures. Megyn Kelly held her fire publicly and in many ways privately as well for a while. That this film depicting the realities of harassment was even made is noteworthy, and Theron, who is also a producer on the film, recently spoke about some of the difficulties in pursuing the project after some of the film’s initial backers pulled out. (Her subsequent memoir, Settle for More, pushed this empowerment narrative even further.) There is almost an affirmative action spot for such women on cable news and morning shows — including Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Meghan McCain on The View. Kelly’s decision to ask Trump about his treatment of women is portrayed less as a journalistic standard and more as a brave bucking of her network’s — and Ailes’ — own sexism and support for Trump. I know because I complained," Kelly said, disclosing that she filed a complaint in November 2016. It’s also being received as a kind of #MeToo movie about women finding their voice in the Trump era — and calling out institutions that ignore or outright support abuse and harassment. Read Next: Sony Pictures Television Nabs Ray Parker Jr. “$32 million is a different story.” She did not understand how Fox News could not know about the settlement before renewing his contract for $25 million per year. But its new, suggestive title, playing on the double meaning of news scandal and blonde femininity, has helped sell the movie as a powerful, zeitgeist-y story about women speaking truth to power. ET. O'Reilly later tweeted an apology to Bolling, who. “Hot in here,” Kidman says, before exiting. In the interview, O'Reilly suggested that the son of former Fox News commentator Eric Bolling died because of allegations against his father, which the Times also reported. He said the New York Times report was "a hit job to get [him] out of the marketplace.". (Rather than suggesting, for instance, how her elite education might have aligned her with the network’s, and broader media’s, class politics.). After Ailes’ firing, the Murdochs are depicted calling Trump after his win, even though they were once against him. Kayla Pospisil (Margot Robbie, left) and Jess Carr (Kate McKinnon) in Bombshell. The new movie Bombshell tells the story of former Fox News anchors Gretchen Carlson and Megyn Kelly accusing then-Fox CEO Roger Ailes of … In this way, institutional forces become embodied in particular power players whom we are meant to understand aren’t always in alignment. 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CORNISH: In the end, who is this movie for, Linda? "He’s dead because of allegations made — in my opinion and I know this to be true — against Mr. Bolling," O'Reilly said on The Daily. In addition to John Lithgow’s portrayal of Ailes, Allison Janney, Connie Britton and other notable character actors feature in the film. And you got to remember, this is more than a year before the revelations about Harvey Weinstein that really inspired what people think of as the national consciousness about #MeToo. And he fought against her and tried to really rally a lot of people, particularly women at Fox News, to go against her publicly as well. Para saber mais sobre nossa política de cookies, acesse link. Since both Kelly and Carlson have alleged sexual harassment while they were at Fox News, it seems that in posting these letters O'Reilly is arguing that he's innocent because the two women thanked him. I know because I complained," Megyn Kelly said, disclosing that she filed a complaint in 2016. I know because I complained.”… https://t.co/Cesh7u4m4m, On the same day as Kelly's monologue, O'Reilly appeared on Glenn Beck's radio show, where he claimed that no one had ever filed a human resources complaint against him. Charlize Theron plays Megyn Kelly in 2016 in the middle of the contentious presidential campaign, wrestling with what to do after former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a lawsuit against then-Fox CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassment. So it's a combination of real and fictional people. (Instead, there’s even a melodramatic scene asking us to sympathize with her as a mother, when her children are scared by a paparazzo at their hotel. Are we looking at a docusoap (ph)? Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie aren’t pulling any punches in Bombshell, the new biographical film about the women at FOX News who exposed the Roger Ailes sexual misconduct scandal and eventually took down the TV titan. And she wanted to figure out whether she wanted to reveal that, a decade earlier, as a young reporter in the Washington bureau of Fox News, that according to her, Ailes had sexually harassed her as well. The three worked together at Fox News. ", Today published her email to the presidents of Fox News about O'Reilly's comments in full: "Perhaps he didn't realize that his exact attitude of shaming women into shutting the hell up harassment — on the grounds that 'it will disgrace the company' is in part how Fox News got into the decade-long Ailes mess to begin with. CORNISH: But does she make for a principled protagonist in a film that's ostensibly about the complexity between feminism, the #MeToo movement and Fox? FOLKENFLIK: I think you have to give the first place - if there was a Mount Rushmore to women who took down Roger Ailes for sexual harassment, you've got to start with Gretchen Carlson. “I personally felt uncomfortable with some of the stuff that she's said.”, Following her Emmy-winning turn on HBO’s Big Little Lies, Kidman takes on the role of Carlson, who was the first to publicly stand up against Ailes. In the two-minute clip, Kidman's Carlson … There are later similar scenes of Carlson as a mother.). Robbie joue un personnage de fiction nommé Kayla Popsisil. Gretchen Carlson is still in awe that her story is being told on both the big and small screens. Accuracy and availability may vary. Presumably, representing the network’s racial politics would be too controversial and make the protagonists too “unlikable” for the broad moviegoing audience. Instead, Carlson is an ideological maverick who faces pushback from Ailes for advocating for (some) gun control, and for appearing makeup-less on an episode about empowering young women. “This will go down as one of the biggest moments in history,” The View co-host said, before revealing that the project hits close to home. "O'Reilly's claim that no one ever complained about him is false.
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