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Earlier this month, several women accused No Time To Die director Cary Fukunaga of “preparing” young women, and one of them said there were “a lot of people” working closely with him and ” he knows that he is a predator “and that” everyone talks about it in their backs “, but don’t do anything about it.
Today, a new report released by Rolling Stone sheds new light on the accusation, with “nearly a dozen” sources working on film and television productions with Fukunaga saying it uses its sets “as an opportunity to meet women.” younger and openly chase multiple female cast and crew members at once. ” A crew member said his behavior “bordered on workplace harassment” and that he was concerned that “his career could have been jeopardized” when he was rejected and “would not accept the track.”
Rolling Stone says that even those “who ended up having a romantic relationship or even a friendship” with Fukunaga “in the end left feeling confused, dazzled or manipulated,” and the director’s lawyer told Rolling Stone who “has befriended men and women.” , young and old ”on their sets. The lawyer also says that “there is nothing wrong with seeking consensual friendships or romantic relationships with women” and that “no one, not once” has expressed concern about the way Fukunaga is behaving on set.
However, the Rolling Stone story cites several stories of different women who have similar stories, saying it will pay “special attention” to specific young women on set, who will offer to get them a tattoo (the lawyer notes that it is a “talented” tattoo artist (“stick and punch” “and that many men and women have applied for tattoos), and then fall into” a general dynamic of cold and heat. “At least one woman who spoke to Rolling Stone went to say she was “intimate” with Fukunaga while working on “a recent project” with him and acknowledged that it was “complicated”, but it wasn’t until she saw the stories of other women that it seems “a perfectly recorded diary” From his own experience that he decided it was a “manipulative and thoughtful process.”
Other sources say they noticed the “intensity” of Fukunaga when talking to specific younger women, and noted that it felt “unpleasant” or “creepy” or “disturbing,” but one says that many of us didn’t really. In addition, while most of the sources mentioned by Rolling Stone chose to remain anonymous, one who has made public his statements about Fukunaga is the former partner. of writing Nick Cuse, who now says that Fukunaga is the “worst human being” he has ever known and that Fukunaga is “horrible” to people who are not celebrities.
Cuse and other sources who share allegations now apparently do so specifically because no one had said anything publicly before now, with one saying “if it’s him who’s a little perverted and makes people uncomfortable,” then ” he must be away from home. ” open ”for people to learn. Another, a woman who went out with Fukunaga, says she does not believe she was “personally abused” by him, but witnessed behaviors of his that “reflect and corroborate” what the accusers have said.
The Rolling Stone piece has more accusations and reactions from people who have worked on Fukunaga projects (plus, needless to say, more specific denials from Fukunaga and his lawyer).