Casey Affleck may be celebrating his 2017 Academy Award nomination for Best Actor on Tuesday, but Constance Wu has a problem with the whole thing.
The “Manchester by the Sea” star had multiple sexual harassment allegations and a related lawsuit against him, all of which have since been settled for an undisclosed sum. Affleck, 41, has denied any wrongdoing, but that won’t stop Wu from calling him out.
In a series of tweets, the “Fresh Off the Boat” actress shuns both the Academy for celebrating Affleck, despite the accusations, and the actor himself for settling the cases out of court.
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Wu elaborates on her stance in a much longer Twitter rant. “He’s running for an award that honours a craft whose purpose is examining the dignity of the human experience and young women are deeply human,” she writes.
Adding, “it signifies said committee’s awareness of the harmful oversights it may have unknowingly participated in in the past, and the respect and dignity to learn from the past, not to repeat it and not to use it as an excuse to reinforce the industry’s gross and often hidden mistreatment of women.”
Moments later, the 34-year-old actress reveals she had been advised to not speak on the matter for the benefit of her career, but “F my career,” Wu exclaims.
