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Sean Young calls out toxic men she worked with in Hollywood

In a new interview, Sean Young listed men she worked with in Hollywood who she considered toxic, including Warren Beatty, Steven Spielberg, and Ridley Scott.

Young discusses how she constantly made “men nervous” in a new interview with the Daily Beast about “surviving Hollywood’s toxic men.” The 61-year-old also feels that a group of “powerful, terribly vindictive men” ruined her career.

Young discussed her rocky Hollywood career, which culminated in her being labeled “difficult” and being blacklisted from the industry.

Sean had always thought of herself as frank and down-to-earth with others, but she now thinks she may have been “offensive.” “That wasn’t my purpose,” she explained. “When I started to get pissed off later, I just got offensive, like, ‘It’s serious. That’s my job. You’re not only blacklisting me.” This is awful.” It isn’t very good.

She said that Beatty wasn’t the “worst of the bunch,” citing widespread sexual harassment in Hollywood at the time.

Young told the magazine, “I think the sleazy or difficult part is that he probably thought he was treating me really well. You know what I’m saying? It’s not just Warren – it’s across the board. Ever since the movie business began, women have been treated as a commodity.’

‘There was always someone grabbing you, and I just ignored it,’ she continued.

She remembered when Harvey Weinstein exposed himself to her on the set of Love Crimes, saying, “I wouldn’t pull it out because it isn’t nice. Put away that little thing.”

“And you must remember somebody gross, who they’re inside,” Sean added. “I think his plan for the game was, ‘Be as strong as I can to be laid out.’ It’s just as simple as most people’s plans are. It’s not getting much deeper.”

She added, ‘I only got offensive later because I started getting pissed off, like, “This is serious. This is my career. You don’t just blacklist me.” It’s terrible.’

Young said that director Ridley Scott forced her to shoot the “incredibly aggressive and uncomfortable” s-x scene between her and Harrison Ford in 1982’s Blade Runner as a “fuck you” since she refused to “date him.”

“He tried very hard in the beginning of the show to date him, and I never would. I was like, nah. And then he started dating the actress who played Zhora, Joanna Cassidy, and I felt relieved,” said Young. “And then we do this scene, and I think it was Ridley. I think Ridley was like, fuck you. I was thinking, ‘Why did this have to be like that? What was the point of that?’ and I think it was Ridley’s none-too-subtle message that he was getting even with me.”

Scott never employed her again, according to Young, and she only had a 30-second holographic cameo in Blade Runner 2049 in 2017.

“Wasn’t that so full of shit?” Young added. “And there was nothing I could do about it. It was very clear that they knew that the audience would be upset that I wasn’t in it, but they didn’t want me to bitch about that publicly. So, they paid me some money, made me sign a non-disclosure agreement and gave me 30 seconds. And I was like, fine.”

She claimed Jim Carrey stood out as a helpful big star she worked with on his 1994 breakout smash Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.

She added, ‘He’s the only leading man who’s ever did that for me. Jim came in and said, ‘No, no, no. Whatever you’re hearing is bulls***. She’s great.’

Rain Beau’s End, an independent film, is now featuring her.

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