'We are blessed to have a community of people who know him. And know that he wouldn't do this' (via toofab)
"Being the girl on page 33 that's killed in a horror film was something I was consistently offered and, I don't judge others, but I couldn't do it," Jurnee recalled, noting that roles as"the girlfriend" or"the best friend" also didn't appeal to her either."There are just so many ways in which this industry will try, subliminally or overtly, to erase your Blackness.
"I don't apologize," she said of working on the"Lovecraft" set."I'll be like, 'Listen, this fake-ass sexual harassment meeting that we're having, I'm going to raise my hand now and let you guys know that the standards that they're setting are bare minimum.'" She added,"I don't know that I can confidently say that I worked on one job prior to 'Lovecraft' from the time I was 12 on -- where I hadn't been sexually harassed, whether it was by an AD, a co-star, director, producer."
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