Her legendary status was immortalised with a cameo in the cult 1995 comedy To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, starring Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes and John Leguizamo<\/a> as drag queens.<\/p>\n Newmar, whose other credits include raunchy comedy The Marriage-Go-Round (1961), was regularly cast in sexualised roles, with her characters often sought after by men, and she\u2019s reflected on the attention this brought her in a new interview.<\/p>\n \u201cLuckily, I liked it,\u201d she told The Guardian<\/a>. \u201cIt was good. I\u2019m… not the first in line in the #MeToo class.\u201d<\/p>\n Newmar, explaining her comment, said: \u201cI love men too much. I understand them. And the heads of studios, yes, they break a door down and they do this or they do that \u2013 that\u2019s how they act.<\/p>\n \u201cYou think you\u2019re gonna change things? Not a whole lot. And you know what? It works. It works beautifully because men are very good to women.\u201d<\/p>\n Upon being asked if men should be leading the studios, she continued: \u201cThey should be. They do it best.\u201d<\/p>\n The #MeToo movement occurred after the investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against producer Harvey Weinstein, which emboldened survivors of sexual harassment and violence \u2013 including many Hollywood stars \u2013\u00a0to share their personal accounts.<\/p>\n In the wake of the movement, Oscar-nominated French actor Catherine Deneuve led a group of 100 prominent women with an alternative take on the Weinstein scandal.<\/p>\n An open letter<\/a>, published in France\u2019s Le Monde newspaper shortly after the Weinstein investigation became public knowledge, read: \u201cMen have been punished summarily, forced out of their jobs when all they did was touch someone\u2019s knee or try to steal a kiss.<\/p>\n \u201cRape is a crime, but trying to seduce someone, even persistently or clumsily, is not \u2013 and nor is men being gentlemanly a chauvinist attack.\u201d In 2020, Weinstein was convicted of rape, but had the conviction overturned in 2024. Jurors are now deliberating on whether the case will go to a retrial<\/a>; Weinstein is charged with one count of rape in the third degree.<\/p>\n Elsewhere in the Newmar interview, the actor, who was known for her towering height of 6ft, cited frustrations at once having to stoop her shoulders and crouch while dancing with Astaire in 1953 musical The Band Wagon.<\/p>\n \u201cI once got to dance with Fred Astaire. I just did a pirouette with him, but in a long skirt with bent knees, because he\u2019s 5ft 8in, or something like that,\u201d she said, adding: \u201cYes, I think it was difficult to cast me, because of my \u2026 differences. I\u2019m not ordinary enough.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-627444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Julie](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-08-at-08-31-49.png\")
Julie Newmar\u2019s career launched in the 1950s (Getty)<\/p>\n![\"Julie](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-08-at-08-44-35.png\")
Julie Newmar as Catwoman in 1960s \u2018Batman\u2019 TV show (ABC)<\/p>\n