She said: \u201cIt was only when the #MeToo movement erupted [in 2017] that we realised, oh, this is everywhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think most young women I speak to now in this business are so savvy. The attitude today is, \u2018I\u2019m not f***ing doing that\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although intimacy co-ordinators are more common now, Headey said it doesn\u2019t mean actors always feel comfortable shooting sensitive moments.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven today you can still be on set where no one really cares [about the actors]. You can be doing a nude scene and someone will say, \u2018Okay, put this large lumpy mat against your groin\u2019. But I\u2019m in my 50s now and I feel more in control. It\u2019s a different game.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Brothers Grimm actor recalled how she often accepted uncomfortable situations in her younger days because she was so grateful to have a job.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I started out there was this rite of passage all young female actors had to go through, which usually involved snogging and falling in love, and having sex and showing your boobs. They\u2019d call them the ingenue parts, to make it sound nicer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just got on with it. I didn\u2019t go to drama school so I would just arrive on a set and be, \u2018Oh my God, I\u2019ve got a job\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd when it came to those moments, I don\u2019t think I even questioned that I should be safe. Instead I\u2019d go home and cry, or think, \u2018Oh, that felt weird and too familiar\u2019. Now I look back and feel, \u2018Hmm, that was rough\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She said: \u201cIt was only when the #MeToo movement erupted [in 2017] that we realised, oh, this is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3376,26952,156,2082,19724,264988,4223,190059,3605,111,139,69,25087,70416,15381,19993],"class_list":["post-538359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-actor","tag-blasted","tag-entertainment","tag-for","tag-given","tag-headey","tag-hollywood","tag-lena","tag-men","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-predatory","tag-protecting","tag-protection","tag-slams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}