PEOPLE ARE PETITIONING FOR CASEY
AFLAC TO BE DISINVITED FROM THE ACADEMY AWARDS OR IN THE VERY
LEAST TO ENSURE THAT HE WILL NOT PRESENT AT THE UPCOMING ACADEMY
AWARDS.
THIS IS ALL BECAUSE OF THE CURRENT CLIMATE INVOLVING
SEXUAL ASSAULT AND HARASSMENT ALLEGATIONS.
CASEY AFFLECK HIMSELF FACE LAWSUITS FROM TWO SEPARATE WOMEN
BACK IN 2010 WHO ACCUSE THAT HE SEXUALLY
ASSAULTED THEM.
THEY SETTLED OUT OF QUOTE FOR AN UNDISCLOSED AMOUNT BUT THE DAILY
BEAST HAD DETAILS ON THE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST HIM WHICH
INCLUDED GETTING INTO A BED WITH ONE OF THE WOMEN WHILE SHE
WAS SLEEPING AND HE WAS COMPLETELY NAKED.
>> HE HAD NO SHIRT ON, BUT HE HAD HIS UNDERWEAR ON.
>>EITHER WAY SHE DID NOT WANT HIM THERE AND I WAS ONE OF
MANY INSTANCES WHERE HE HAD DONE THINGS THAT SHE HAD FELT
UNCOMFORTABLE ABOUT.
THEY SETTLED OUT OF COURT, WE DON'T KNOW THE TERMS ARE THE
AMOUNTS BUT EITHER WAY THERE IS THIS ISSUE INVOLVING THE FACT
THAT IF TRADITION PLAYS OUT THE WAY IT NORMALLY DOES IT IS
LIKELY THAT HE WOULD PRESENT THE AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS.
THERE WAS A PETITION GAINED ABOUT 16,000 SIGNATURES, IT WAS
STARTED BY A FILMMAKER WHO FELT PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS ISSUE.
THE ACADEMY AWARDS NEEDS TO SET AN EXAMPLE.
THERE WAS AN INTERVIEW WITH THE HEAD OF THE ACADEMY AWARDS, THAT
PERSON WAS ASKED WHETHER OR NOT THEY WERE RECONSIDERING.
IT WAS KIND OF A NONANSWER BUT AT LEAST IT IS ON THEIR RADAR.
WE WILL SEE HOW EVERYTHING PLAYS OUT.
>>HERE
IS A COUPLE OF UNCOMFORTABLE SITUATIONS, ONE HAPPENED.
THE BEST ACTRESS FROM A YEAR AGO HOW TO PRESENT THE AWARD TO
CASEY AFFLECK LAST YEAR AND HER PERFORMANCE AND THE REASON SHE
ONE IN THE MOVIE ROOM WAS BECAUSE SHE PLAYED A KIDNAPPING
VICTIM AND SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVIVOR AND HERSELF IN REAL
LIFE IS A NOTED ADVOCATE FOR SURVIVORS OF RAPE.
SHE DID NOT APPLAUD WHEN HE WON AND
THAT WAS TELLING.
SO THIS IS PRETTY BAD.
CASEY AFLAC ON ONE HAND YOU CAN SAY THEY SETTLED OUT OF COURT
YOU DON'T REALLY KNOW, IT JUST LEAKED TO THE DAILY BEAST
AND IT IS ANONYMOUS.
ON THE OTHER HAND THEY SEEM CREDIBLE AND THE STORY ANA
WAS TELLING YOU ABOUT, HE IS IN BED WITH HER AND SHE ORDERS
HIM OUT OF BED AND HE SAYS WHY?
>>AND HE GOT ANGRY ABOUT IT.
SO THE DAILY BEAST BROKE THAT STORY BUT YOU CAN READ ABOUT IT
IN THE COURT FILINGS.
LAWSUITS WERE FILED AGAINST HIM AND THEY DECIDED TO GO
AHEAD AND SETTLE OUT OF COURT.
>>TO BE THE WORST PART OF IT, THERE ARE A BUNCH OF
ALLEGATIONS, THERE IS JOKING, SEXUAL REFERENCES.
PEOPLE HAVE OPINIONS ON HOW SEVERE THAT IS BUT YOU HAVE TO
WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING BECAUSE IF YOU BELIEVE IT BY THE END OF THE
WOMEN ALLEGE THAT WHEN THEY THEY DID NOT GIVE IN TO HIS
ADVANCES THEY WERE TAKEN OFF THE MOVIE.
I WILL SAY ABOUT THE ACADEMY, THEY ARE IN A TOUGH SPOT HERE.
THEY BASICALLY TOOK AWAY ALL THE HONORS OF HARVEY WEINSTEIN,
IT'S THE FIRST TIME THEY'VE EVER DONE THAT.
IF THEY BREAK THIS PROTOCOL ñ
>>THE WORLD WILL END.
>>NO, BUT THEN THEY WILL GET INTO EVERY ACTOR AND EVERY
ACTRESS, DID THEY EVER DO ANYTHING WRONG?
AND THEY HAVE TO ANALYZE IT PIECE BY PIECE.
I'M NOT SAYING THEY SHOULD NOT DO IT, I'M SAYING GIVE THEM
SPACE TO MAKE THE DECISION.
IF THEY MAKE THE WRONG DECISION YOU CAN GET ALL OVER THEM BUT
GIVE THEM TIME TO THINK ABOUT IT BECAUSE FOR THEM IT IS A
VERY HARD DECISION THAT HAS A LOT OF RAMIFICATIONS FOR
YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS.
JUDGE THEM AFTER THEY HAVE MADE THE DECISION.
THAT IS FAIR.
>>IT WAS SETTLED OUT OF COURT YOU CANNOT MAKE A DECISION ABOUT
GUILT.
THE DETAILS AND THE COURT DOCUMENTS ARE SO DETAILED.
THERE WAS ANOTHER CASE WHERE CASEY AFLAC HAD ENCOURAGED
ANOTHER PERSON WORKING ON A FILM TO TAKE HIS PENIS OUT IN FRONT
OF ONE OF THE WOMEN THAT HE IS SUING.
IF YOU CAN'T PROVE IT AND YOU ARE MAKING THESE DECISIONS
WITH THE ACADEMY, I GET IT IT IS HARD.
BUT I JUST FEEL LIKE THE ENTIRE, JUST LIKE THE NEWS
INDUSTRY, THE ENTIRE SYSTEM NEEDS TO CHANGE.
WE NEED SOME FRESH BLOOD.