Martin Freeman Addresses Backlash Over 31-Year Age Gap With Jenna Ortega in Recent Romantic Thriller

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“It’s not saying, ‘Isn’t this great?’” Freeman said of ‘Miller’s Girl,’ in which Ortega plays an 18-year-old student who has an affair with her older writing teacher.

Written and directed by first-time filmmaker Jade Halley Bartlett, the film debuted theatrically in January, but has opened itself up to more controversy since arriving on Netflix in late April. In a recent interview with London’s The Times, Freeman called the movie “grown-up and nuanced,” noting that any discomfort derived from the 31-year age gap between himself and Ortega was entirely the point.

In pointing out that Miller’s Girl does not endorse the lead characters’ relationship, Freeman referred to Steven Spielberg’s best-picture winner, 1993’s Schindler’s List, saying, “Are we gonna have a go at Liam Neeson for being in a film about the Holocaust?” After its initial release, the movie’s intimacy coordinator, Kristina Arjona, told the Daily Mail that 52-year-old Freeman and 21-year-old Ortega were never placed in unsafe situations while filming racier scenes.

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