Bush’s 1988 campaign, which promoted racist fears about black men as rapists of white women, is only mentioned quickly (without any explanation, assuming the audience will know what it’s code for) in the explainer-y intro of him. 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You’ve become a dear friend (no matter what you say) + I am grateful to have you in my life. This ignores the fact that, for instance, the overemphasis on those distinctions is itself a reduction of political possibilities, or the way that classism and racism in media cut across such distinctions. 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. 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. With its emphasis on Megyn Kelly’s and Gretchen Carlson’s stories, Bombshell initially seems like a movie version of that celebrity feminist analysis. But this film is still premised on the idea that conservative white femininity is something of an anomaly and “against women’s interests,” rather than in the interests of plenty of white women. In some ways, the film complicates the “lean-in women’s empowerment” narratives that permeate Hollywood and the media, especially through its representation of Kelly and the fictional producer. ", So what. Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie star in the new film about the women at at FOX News who exposed Roger Ailes. “One of the nice things doing this show now, after doing my old show for 10 years in character, is that I get to sit down and have nice conversations with people I made so many jokes about in the old days,” Colbert said. And she sued him for sexual harassment. The film’s depiction of harassment and the fallout from it is an important reality that many women experience, and that, until #MeToo, rarely found its way into the mainstream cultural conversation. "Their endgame is 'Let's link O'Reilly with Harvey Weinstein,'" O'Reilly said. But in many ways, its use of white queerness does help us better understand the film’s limitations regarding race and identity. Kayla Pospisil (Margot Robbie, left) and Jess Carr (Kate McKinnon) in Bombshell. The coroner has in fact indicated to us that they believe it was an accident. And when I’m on The Morning Show, I play No. Seth Meyers commended Kelly for using her daytime platform to speak out against O’Reilly. In Bombshell, she once again plays a supporting player to Kidman as one of Carlson’s lawyers who takes on Ailes. 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. 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 message I tried to send was that allegations harm kids. Instead, she is presented, in her own words, as a tell-it-like-it-is journalist who puts powerful people in the hot seat, and faces sexism because of it. “I put on that fat suit and those frumpy costumes and it took about five seconds to feel like the man.”. Theron remains in the elevator, scowling as the other two women walk into the Fox News office. So the narrative includes a third character, a fictional composite aspiring producer Kayla (Margot Robbie). Last updated on October 23, 2017, at 5:16 p.m. It was early July of 2016. But when my production company received the script for Bombshell, I was conflicted about playing her,” Theron tells W Magazine. I think if you're going because of how you feel about Fox News, you'll be disappointed in any direction. In Bombshell, she plays Roger’s wife of 20 years, who became the publisher of two local Putnam County newspapers near their upstate New York home. “You will be muzzled, Gretchen,” her lawyer warns Carlson in the final scenes. After being forced out of the network, Shine went on to briefly serve as the White House deputy chief of staff for communications for President Donald Trump. The types of power dynamics the explainer movie foregrounds in the narrative (sexism against white women) and what it considers background information (racial politics) speaks to how it manufactures the — imagined mainstream and white — audience identification. 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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. In the recording, an irate O'Reilly can be heard demanding the reporters "be human beings for once" and called the story "crap.". 1, does that track with your reporting? Similarly, it’s through Kayla and Carr that we are introduced to Kelly’s white Santa moment. “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. Speaking to ET about working on the film, Robbie reveals she “had prepared myself for something spectacular… I was like, ‘The bar is set very, very high in my mind.’” And somehow, she says, “it exceeded those expectations.”. Are we looking at a docusoap (ph)? “It was time to tell that story,” Kelly continued. ET. A previous version of this post misstated which character puts the photo of Jess and her girlfriend on her desk. While he was able to resist prosthetic makeup on the Netflix drama, he submitted here. In this way, institutional forces become embodied in particular power players whom we are meant to understand aren’t always in alignment. CORNISH: And David Folkenflik, our NPR media correspondent, talking to us from New York - thanks so much. Byrne (The Wolf of Wall Street) as Neil Cavuto, Josh Lawson (House of Lies) as James Murdoch, Ben Lawson (Designated Survivor) as Lachlan Murdoch and Stephen Root (Barry) and John Rothman (Law & Order: SVU) as members of Carlson’s legal team, Neil Mullin and Martin Hyman, respectively. So it's not that they don't say what Fox News in the opinion of this movie is, but they don't sort of talk about any nexus between what might make it particularly challenging or different to have this happening at Fox News, I don't think. The fact that it might become the #MeToo movie of 2019 might be a more salient critique of the class and racial politics of Hollywood’s versions of women’s empowerment than anything the film depicts. Accuracy and availability may vary. CORNISH: David, let's talk more about that because Megyn Kelly is positioned as the key player in the pushback against Roger Ailes. They'll call you a liar. HOLMES: Right. The film was originally set to be released through Annapurna, but was dropped by the studio, and Lionsgate subsequently took over. Brunt is a novelist and former president and CEO of the cybersecurity firm Authentium. Lizzo Says VOTE: Shop the Limited Edition Quay x Lizzo Mask Before It’s Gone. In 2008, he married Kelly, and the two have three kids together. Para saber mais sobre nossa política de cookies, acesse link. "This is not unique to Fox News. Unlike Carlson, Kelly has a whole hour on NBC every morning to say just about whatever she wants to in regards to Fox’s sexual harassment problem. 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. 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. 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. Alessa Dominguez is a culture writer for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York. 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. Megyn Kelly and Gretchen Carlson Unload on Bill O’Reilly and Fox News. In 2018, around the time she left the network, it was revealed that Guilfoyle was reportedly dating Donald Trump Jr. Another right wing conspiracy? “Bombshell” will hit theaters Dec. 20, 2019. "This is crap, and you know it." And in defending women celebrities from the sexist trope of “unlikability,” the framework ends up ignoring other vectors of power, namely class and race. She was fearless. Contact Blake Montgomery at blake.montgomery@buzzfeed.com. Gretchen Carlson named “Fox & Friends” co-host Steve Doocy in her sexual harassment lawsuit, but it was Brian Kilmeade who provoked her to storm off set. 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 … “You absolutely were and are fierce in what you have done,” he added. “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. “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. You can read them on https://t.co/rryWmyXe7C, Carlson responded on Twitter: "So what. 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. There are later similar scenes of Carlson as a mother.). Sex is sick but interesting. Bombshell is rare for a big production in that it’s focused on gender and power in a corporation, but it doesn’t really provide a more nuanced contextualization of the stakes around Carlson’s and Kelly’s stories. He said the New York Times report was "a hit job to get [him] out of the marketplace.". By failing to bring race into its analysis. I think what they're trying to do is, you know, make one of these politics-as-drama stories. She wanted to see the landscape. KATE MCKINNON: (As Jess Carr) The world is a bad place. It’s a difficult decision because Ailes ultimately promoted her, she points out, and because when Shepard Smith came out, Ailes told him he “didn’t care where he put his pecker.” Kelly feels like her own advancement and Ailes’ tolerance of a white gay man make Ailes not quite a monster in her eyes. There is a kind of running theme in the film that you can’t leave Fox News because you’re tainted by association (both Carr and Kelly float that idea). Para saber mais sobre nossa política de cookies, acesse link. The new movie "Bombshell" opens wide today. I mean, ask yourselves, who keeps thank you notes from nine years earlier and puts them in a file just in case they need them, right?”, latest revelations about Bill O’Reilly’s history of sexual harassment settlements, post personal notes from the two women on his website, tells her story of Trump’s alleged sexual assault on her. CORNISH: Linda, what were your impressions? And so when she attests to this, there was nowhere for Ailes to go. 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. The movie focuses on the lead-up to those events, following Carlson and Kelly as they decide to build the case against Ailes and as they maneuver through the media and career fallout that came from their allegations. No. 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. 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. 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. “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.”. 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. 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. In the two-minute clip, Kidman's Carlson … Barstool Sports’ Dave Portnoy: Penn National Gaming’s Greatest Asset or Its Biggest Liability? ... who plays former Fox News host Megyn Kelly in Bombshell, also spoke to ET… We live in a moment when the complicated intersections between whiteness and gender are made evident by the fact that a majority of white women voted for Trump. Prior to her current role as host on the FOX News Channel program Justice with Judge Jeanine, Pirro was famous for serving as the investigating attorney in the 1982 disappearance of Kathie Durst. Contact Alessa Dominguez at alessa.dominguez@buzzfeed.com. Become a BuzzFeed News member. I know because I complained," Kelly said, disclosing that she filed a complaint in November 2016. HOLMES: I think fans of Charlize Theron probably. 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. Restrained from directly discussing her experience at Fox and without a TV platform to do so in the first place, Carlson has been limited in what she can say on the matter. This suggests a potentially dark worldview — that nothing has really changed. Because just as the film sidesteps Carlson’s and Kelly’s problematic racist moments, it arguably uses the figure of the white queer to soft-pedal the network’s questionable racial politics. ●. 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. BuzzFeed News’ FinCEN Files investigation exposed massive financial corruption on a historic global scale. But it’s necessary to question the ways Bombshell uses white femininity and queerness to create audience identification. (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. 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. © Copyright 2020 Variety Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. To be legible as a mainstream movie, Bombshell has to participate in the kinds of narratives promoted by Fox News and mainstream media itself. My parting from Fox News was in no way connected to the tragic news of my son's passing. 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. BuzzFeed News’ FinCEN Files investigation exposed massive financial corruption on a historic global scale. O'Reilly later tweeted an apology to Bolling, who. “I think we’re really going to learn a lot about our own history, because Roger Ailes has really had a huge impact in the last two decades,” the 52-year-old actress previously told ET, adding that the film will highlight how the country arrived at a fractious modern political atmosphere. This is how the movie frames her big moment sparring with Trump during the now-infamous presidential debate that turned her into a Vanity Fair cover story symbol of lean-in empowerment. 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. 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. And that's a Fox story. A four-time Emmy nominee, Britton is best known for her roles on Friday Night Lights, Nashville, American Horror Story: Murder House and Dirty John. I admired her sharpness, her wit. But after that news broke over the weekend, their back-to-back appearances Wednesday night all of a sudden got a lot more interesting. Kayla declines, opting to join Bill O’Reilly’s team, in a moment that implies she’s leaning into, even “selling out” to, the more powerful person to ensure her way to the top. Every narrative has to create a moral universe, and in order to locate power in this film, it’s important to think about who represents the establishment and why. You know, she finally knocks out the pillars, the foundation on which - which are so, by this point, rickety and damaged on which Ailes is trying to keep standing. Kate McKinnon as Jess Carr and Margot Robbie as Kayla Pospisil (composite characters). “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. But it was a real act of bravery of her because it essentially assured not only would she not get a job at Fox, but that it'd be very unlikely she'd work again in conventional television news. It meant a lot to me + Doug. Additionally, Richard Kind (Spin City) appears as Rudy Giuliani, with Michael Buie (Grey’s Anatomy) as Bret Baier, comedian Kevin Dorff as Bill O'Reilly, Marc Evan Jackson (The Good Place) as Chris Wallace, Spencer Garrett (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) as Sean Hannity, Tony Plana (Ugly Betty) as Geraldo Rivera, P.J. From left: Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie in Bombshell. Both Kayla and Kelly ultimately decide to talk to the lawyers, helping lead to Ailes’ firing, and the framing of the aftermath is important. In her essay “The Cult of the Difficult Woman,” critic Jia Tolentino writes about a certain strain of pop culture analysis predicated on “the re-writing of celebrity lives as feminist texts.” This framework uses women celebrities as tools for exploring questions of gender and sexism, without addressing, for one thing, the complicated ways that celebrities aren’t just regular people. “So when Margot and I came in, we went, ‘Yeah, of course, we want to be there, we want to support you. CORNISH: So, David, I briefly described it, but just remind us of how big a deal this scandal was at the time which essentially kind of took down Roger Ailes. The three worked together at Fox News. 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. O'Reilly told the Times, “I never mistreated anyone," and said the public outcry over allegations against him were "politically and financially motivated. 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. After Ailes’ firing, the Murdochs are depicted calling Trump after his win, even though they were once against him. He said that the New York Times not printing the affidavit that he and Wiehl signed in January was dishonest. Kayla comes forward and leaves the network. This has a long history, from the era of Phyllis Schlafly (the subject of another current show) and Anita Bryant (subject of a forthcoming biopic), through that of Ann Coulter and Tomi Lahren. We want to get this thing made.’”, Coming off an Emmy win for his portrayal of Winston Churchill on The Crown, the 74-year-old actor was “enormously excited” to take on Ailes in Bombshell. Another letter written by Kelly thanks O'Reilly for promoting her husband Douglas Brunt's book and calls O'Reilly "a true friend + mentor.". “Why wouldn’t you ask before you bring this man back in the workplace and unleash him on the workforce?” she asked. Bombshell isn’t just about Carlson’s or Kelly’s stories. ), Posted on December 9, 2019, at 1:02 p.m. This was a primetime star. By failing to contextualize their race and class, Bombshell overlooks how complicated the real women who ousted Roger Ailes are. In the film, she takes on the role of the former FOX News personality and co-host of The Five. Apologies to Eric Bolling and prayers for him and his family. “Those stories went away pretty quickly,” she said, but now she sees the culture changing. “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. In addition to John Lithgow’s portrayal of Ailes, Allison Janney, Connie Britton and other notable character actors feature in the film. 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. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. Eric Bolling responds to O'Reilly statement to NYT that Bolling's son died because of allegations against his fathe… https://t.co/D3fypRIojx. In the explainer movie mold, Bombshell frames the story so that it’s not just about individual celebrities but about sexism and the institution of Fox News in the Trump era. ", In a clip Kelly played of O'Reilly appearing on CBS, he said, "I'm not interested in litigating something that makes my network look bad. Read Next: Sony Pictures Television Nabs Ray Parker Jr. She said she believes People magazine writer Natasha Stoynoff, who tells her story of Trump’s alleged sexual assault on her in Carlson’s book. ", Nobody pays $32m for false allegations - nobody https://t.co/qB3njcHHuy, No need to wait for Monday. 01/09/2020 12:44 pm ET. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record. On O’Reilly’s team, Kayla meets Jess Carr (Kate McKinnon), a show producer who is also a (not entirely open) lesbian and liberal Hillary supporter, and they begin an affair. I believe it is beyond inappropriate for anyone to bring in the tragic death of my son Eric Chase Bolling. 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. “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. Ubach, who has previously appeared in Legally Blonde, Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce and Euphoria, takes on Pirro in Bombshell. ET. The Iranian-British actress has previously appeared on Homeland, How I Met Your Mother and Scandal. "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. C’est une productrice associée de Fox News. ... — 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 …
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