Rose McGowan Slams Natalie Portman's 'Deeply Offensive' Pro-Female Director Oscars Ensemble

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'Brave? No, not by a long shot. More like an actress acting the part of someone who cares. As so many of them do,' rosemcgowan wrote of Natalie Portman's Oscars ensemble

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"What is it with actresses of your ilk? You ‘A-listers’ could change the world if you’d take a stand instead of being the problem. Yes, you, Natalie. You are the problem. Lip service is the problem. Fake support of other women is the problem," McGowan continued. Twitter backlash to Portman's cape on Sunday also took the actor to task for Handsomecharlie Films only hiring one female director over the course of eight projects, with three in development. "Really brave of Natalie Portman to elevate the voices of [checks notes] white women in Hollywood through the medium of [squints harder] ...a garment that she will wear exactly once made by a brand that doesn’t pay a living wage," one commentator wrote.

"There is no law that says you need to hire women, work with women, or support women. By all means, you do you. But I am saying stop pretending you’re some kind of champion for anything other than yourself," McGowan concluded. "As for me, I’ll be over here raising my voice and fighting for change without any compensation. That is activism. Until you and your fellow actresses get real, do us all a favor and hang up your embroidered activist cloak, it doesn’t hang right.

Portman wasn't the only avowed star feminist whose statements at the Oscars provoked groans on social media and among media types on Sunday. The Daily Beasta presentation speech by Sigourney Weaver, Brie Larson and Gal Gadot to be the night's "most cringeworthy moment.

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Old news.

No fan of McGowan, but her larger point that female-owned production companies should make a bigger effort to hire female writers & directors is correct.

rosemcgowan , please take a breather.

Why not ? Don’t rose think she looked pretty with this embroidered dress?

Oh shut the hell up Rose. natalie can say & do whatever she wants. Does not involve you.

Meanwhile, while all these Hollywood women are bickering and whining, real women like nurses and teachers just get on with it in the real world and work harder and longer than any of them put together and for far less money. Yeah Hollywood, you really have it hard.

I am impressed by all of Roses leaked porn work

Is McGowan looking for press attention?

Who’s Rose McGowan? Is she even relevant nowadays?

This is old news and portman has responded. Move on

And who IS Rose MacGowan impressed with these days? She seems to hate and attack EVERYONE. She needs serious therapy.

I appreciated the gesture, but I’m thinking a woman (or man) was paid meager wages to embroider the names. She could mention them, no?

Who?

What an awful and bitter thing to say. I think Ms. McGowan was....you know.....but that's no excuse. Holy cow. A woman might be running for president again! Y'all should really try to get on the same page.

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FEMINISM!

Rose just yells at people before she even knows the whole story. Natalie’s dress was about directors nominated, not directors hired. Understand the story before you attack someone Rose

The Malibu woke eventuality were going to tear into one another. They are The Donner Party of attention seekers.

Rose is angry with everyone who speaks, unless she is the center

Jeez, talk about yer “first-world” arguments...

Classy response

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Natalie Portman didn't need to respond. Rose McGowan is just sour that she isn't front and centre of everything.

If she's so upset about women not getting any directing Oscar nominations why has her production company only hired one female director to make movies with her being that female?

this is how you respond with class and intelligence. Instead of just yelling and berating other women. How many female directors has McGowan worked with?

I don't even know who this Rose woman is, never heard of her. but she must be one unhappy bitter old woman.....

Good 👍🏼

Classic Weinstein defense

Here's the thing, they're all actors and actresses. They pretend to be someone else for living so when they started speaking out about politics, equal rights, or all the other shit in the real world, i just don't think I can trust a actor or actress. The might be pretending.

We dont care

NataliePortman: I‘ve stitched women’s names onto my cape for the Oscars . RoseMcGowan: You’re not brave for doing that. How dare you! Natalie Portman: Yeah, you’re kind of right.

Cant be arsed

Rose McGowan is offended by everything.

Hard out there for a pimp

Natalie always give proper reply in all her criticism. She is classy lady.

She is such an inspiration

Why did she respond to that attention wh...🙄

Note to rosemcgowan: When you've been in a glass house of 'deeply offensive' on a red carpet yourself, don't throw stones.

Damn Natalie is a classy lady 🙌🙌👏👏👏 respect to her , to both !

Females once dominated Hollywood, now all they are asking is for equality.

and also note Dior's history with underpaid or slave labor to make their gowns.

Natalie Portman is so fake, two faced and a hypocrite. Her production company has hired one female director. Herself. It is so wrong to bring up MeToo. What does that have to do with female directors

You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.

Classy

not sure its brave to testify against somebody who is perceived as the devil incarnate at this point. Theres no backlash here. What sucks about Portman is she supported Polanski & worked with Woody allen long after their pedo crimes were known about.

Exactly what she needed attention!

Misdirection.

How about you keep the names of women artists off of your clothes. Considering your production company doesn’t even hire female directors 😂. Stop with your virtue signaling.

This from some who is using MeToo to be relevant.

Brave I associate with every warrior who has ever stood up against an abusive boyfriend, friend, husband, and ended up living a new life. Not all abuse it with celebrities, it happens to many of us nameless, and we fight back, and we become warriors!

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Nice trolling.

You can fully expect a Joaquin like response about self discovery, and becoming a better person... admitting past mistakes. yaddayaddayadda Why is it that people that are paid to entertain, take a celebratory event in their industry to focus on problems?

McGowan is right. Many actresses, Kidman, Lopez, T. Thomson, etc. pledged to work with a female director at least every 18 months. Portman has a production company and hasn't hired a woman. So there is writing stuff on your dress, and actually doing something to implement change

For those in a position to hire equitably in the film industry, you can sign the ParityInAction pledge. We also have a crew list on our website filled with women to hire, above and below the line. HireTheseWomen

How about putting her neck out to push for a female director for Jane got a Gun and Thor 2, both of which started the project, then had to bow out. This is kind of a BS take.

Natalie is a quite strange one, but she's definitely a tremendous professional. Rose has to think twice before talking.

Awww Rose! Missing the spotlight again are you?

I’m curious to know how Rose McGowan is helping women, by adding another negative story about a woman to the News/Media cycle.

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Shut up Rose.

Really lovely of rosemcgowan to tear a fellow woman down for not being feminist enough.

Please stop giving Rose McGowan a platform. She’s one to talk. Please do yourselves a favor and do research on her career and some of the things she’s involved herself with. I hate hypocrisy.

Don’t you go after Natalie she is amazing

She’s not wrong....

Bitter acid

😂 slam

Et tu, Natalus ?

Say what you want about Rose, she has a point.

Damn. Those are some facts right there.

WilliCaroline Bright_Star06 bah

Is someone stopping Rose McGowan from starting her own production company and hiring female directors? Maybe the physician should heal herself in her glass house.

Who's rose McGowan again? Oh yeah. The only good role she had was being hurt by a garage door! Clap clap clap.

RoseMcGowan is the biggest hypocrite in the business. Natalie Portman is not the least bit concerned about her opinion. She's doing a lot better than Rose is.

Not the biggest fan of Rose McGowan but she's got a point here, all for more women directors/writers, absolutely. I guess when you hire a director for your production company, you look at who is the best qualified, well, that's what the awards have done, looked at the best work.

Rose made a valid point. It is a fair criticism.

Well, she's right...

Johnny depp was abused by Amber Heard. Why don't she call her for that. Attention seeker

I stan Natalie Portman's choice of wardrobe this Oscars and it's so much better than being silent and going to Franco's party but rosemcgowan raises a fair point. I hope her company and many actors work more with amazing female directors all over the world!

Figures!🙈🙉🙊

I mean rosemcgowan is right here. Fair point.

Preach👀

Artists set up production companies to support their own projects. Portman directing her own productions shouldn't be a surprise.

Natalie Portman is making it so hard for me to like her personally. Geez.

Someone had to point that out

You know, if you had said something in 1997 it's possible that HW would not have gone on to abuse more women. How much was that private settlement?

When 3 million less people tune in next year we can all point to this dumb dress... which if not for that one detail is actually an incredible dress!

Enabling a serial sexual predator probably worse than empty Dior slacktavism, but both part of the same problem of deeds not matching words when the time came.

Well said Rose

Portman's doesn't has a huge production company..

Rose also knew about Harvey Weinstein before anyone and she didn't say anything lol

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Hate Rose all you want but she has a very good point here.

reelsistas Look. Y’all don’t have to like Rose, I sure don’t, but there is not one lie detected in what she said. Don’t get all performative at the Oscars around the lack of female directors being recognized when you have a damn production company that won’t hire female directors

To be fair that is a valid point...

If nearly a 30 year career Natalie Portman has worked with 2 female directors. That’s it.

Ok picking on each other will not help. It’s HER company!

Is there actually something that Rose like !! I don’t think so .

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STFU rosemcgowan Natalie has worked with several female directors on feature films, Mira Nair, Rebecca Zlotowski and Vanita Shastry. She has worked films with Marya Cohn (Developing) & Shirin Neshat, a music video with Anna Rose Holmer & 2 Dior commercials with Sofia Coppola.

Not one, two: Natalie Portman and Portman, Natalie... Wait!!

NataliePortman should just deal with the facts. The talent may not be their for female directors. RoseMcGowen did the right thing to call her out on her publicitystunt. Stop politicizing the Oscars. lowratings

Say what you will about Rose but she's not wrong. Why hasn't Natalie hired any women directors if it's so important to her? It's a valid question to say the least.

Rose really isn't the one to talk here but she does raise a good point. Natalie Portman should be leading by example. Instead, she's being a hypocrite and not practicing what she preaches. Don't preach the problem, if you are part of that problem, and not willing to fix it.

Both are equally absurd. If you're going to fight the fight, fight the worthy ones, not this petty shit.

bwahaha I love it when they turn on each other. Fake vs Fake. Metoo vs MeToo both these heifers are phony hypocrites

Rose McGowan is not fully sound. To what extent is thr shirking an ethical responsibility by enabling this story ?

Is McGowan jealous because Natalie Portman has had immensely successful career and she didn't? I don't care, Oscars are trash anyway

This is hilarious

ooops...

How much did Portman pay McGowan to snub her so more ppl would find out she made a super cool dress that all ppl on earth should be aware of? It's rhetorical.

Rose being Rose. smh

Rose McGowan stamping her feet and wanting attention again.

Oh burn

Libs attacking libs

I'm pretty much sick of rosemcgowan. I didn't know Portman or anyone else needed her permission or advice on how they choose to be an activist. Someone needs some attention.

This the same cokehead Rose McGowan who helped start and subsequently derail the 'metoo' movement by showing she was mostly after money and publicity? While what she's saying is likely true, SHE shouldn't be the one saying it

lel

How about calling out Amber Heard?

Ha ha ha the irony

Seems a valid point?

Rose just always wants attention. Nothing new..

Hypocrite.

Oh snap

rosemcgowan Given that Natalie only started doing this kind of thing after winning an Oscar and consequently not having anything at risk, combined with a consistent track record of failed arthouse films, I must agree.

rosemcgowan While agreeing with McGowan I’d prefer a more sisterly approach to Portman’s folly.

rosemcgowan Facts

Yes girl we see you...now go away 🙄

rosemcgowan Easier to appear to have a virtue than have true values- which is what you do not what you say.

rosemcgowan Delusional feminists... Err wait... One word is enough feminists

rosemcgowan Is there anybody in Hollywood this freak hasn't attacked? Is she still blaming Oprah and Meryl for Weinstein's crimes, the crimes she covered up?

rosemcgowan It’s true! She needs to take real action.

rosemcgowan Rose, please take a break.

rosemcgowan

rosemcgowan McGowan is pissed because she thinks that, while she is doing all the hard work, these A-List female actors do a 'little thing' and get all the flashes. I understand it, but she should see the big picture, eat her own pride and embrace these actions, which they also count.

rosemcgowan Natalie Portman & Scarlet Johansson think they're the Queen's of the world... Deluded and then some... I don't watch their PUS.

rosemcgowan Good thing I haven’t the slightest idea of who Rose Mc Gowan is.

rosemcgowan This is such a disgusting, narcissistic, and counterproductive thing for Rose McGowan, someone who claims to be an activist, to do. Instead of contacting Portman directly to come up with more direct and proactive actions, she instead chose to vilify her on social media for clout.

rosemcgowan

rosemcgowan rose isn’t wrong

rosemcgowan

rosemcgowan ....I mean....she isn't wrong....but a broken clock is right twice a day 😅

rosemcgowan

rosemcgowan Please.

rosemcgowan RoseMcgowan why are so negative?

rosemcgowan Rose would rather have all the credit as she labels herself the true voice of this movement, rather then sharing the spotlight, she rather take others down.

rosemcgowan She is still fuckin hot.

Just suffered thru MarriageStory -worst film ever & LauraDern had 4lines! R U KIDDING w ANY awards FOR WHAT She did NOTHING! Shocked! How could she even have been nominated? Just crazy! Oscars

rosemcgowan Lmao this also applies to her. Love watching them eat each other up 🤣

Well, she would know all about that..

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