CANNES, France — Five years after lighting
the fuse of
MeToo, US actor Alyssa Milano says she is delighted with the way
women are “refusing to be silenced”.
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“A lot has changed,” Milano told AFP, since sending
her famous tweet on October 15, 2017 asking women to share their stories of
sexual harassment under the hashtag
#MeToo.
The 49-year-old, who grew up in public as the star
of Who’s the Boss? and Charmed, was herself a victim of sexual assault during a
shoot in the 1990s.
“The most obvious thing is that we are refusing to
be silenced and really coming together,” she said in Cannes, where she was
taking part in the Mipcom TV festival.
She pointed to new legislation against gender
discrimination and harassment across the
United States, as well as the
introduction of “intimacy coordinators” to assist during sex scenes in movies.
“It made no sense to me how, if there was an animal
on the set, we would have to have someone from the humane society to oversee
the health and welfare of the animal, and yet the actors are in such vulnerable
situations not only with love scenes, but with all sorts of emotional scenes,”
Milano said.
Milano’s activism did not start with MeToo, however.
When Who’s the Boss? was the number one show in the
United States, a 15-year-old Milano received a request from none other than
Elton John.
The singer asked her to meet a young fan, Ryan
White, who had been expelled from his school after contracting HIV.
“He asked me if I could go on TV and kiss him to
prove that you couldn’t get HIV/AIDS through casual contact, and I said yes,”
she said on a panel at Mipcom.
“That was the moment that
my life completely changed because I realized what it meant to be famous, and
to do good with that voice,” she said.
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