Veteran actress Jacqueline Bisset says she feels “unsympathetic” towards women who complained of harassment during the advent of the #MeToo movement, saying she feels women are partially to blame for their treatment.
In an interview with Page Six, the British actress who has made her home in the US for more than 50 years, said:
“I understand as an idea, it’s important that men behave, but I do really think it’s important that women behave, too. I think how you dress, what your subtext is very, very important. It’s very dangerous and not to be played with.”
She added: “You have to be very careful what you put out [there].”
Bisset said that she felt “very unsympathetic to these stories, these #MeToo things.”
The #MeToo movement gathered momentum in 2017 following a myriad of allegations that movie producer Harvey Weinstein had assaulted female employees and actresses.
Bisset began her film career in 1965 and broke through in films including The Detective, Bullitt and The Sweet Ride. In 2013, she won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the BBC TV drama Dancing on the Edge.
She told Page Six that women “need to learn the word ‘no’ or the F-word or something and you have to do it and you can get through it without any problem.”
And she said she herself had never throughout her long career experienced any sexual harassment
She said: “I was very determined not to have anything happen to me and I was completely devoted to that idea.”
