https://www.resetera.com/threads/bafta-winning-actor-noel-clarke-kidulthood-star-trek-into-darkness-accused-of-groping-harassment-by-20-women.417834/So this is another "how can era seriously handle things this badly" type thread, with comparisons being made to fucking
jimmy saville.
I have no idea if the guys done what hes accused of, but its not "20 people all accuse him of the same thing" which is a lot more of a smoking gun, its more like "20 women with random different grievances are all trying to fuck this dudes life up now" and fuck his life up is indeed whats happening:
BAFTA have also just responded by suspending his membership and his award.
Sky has stopped Noel Clarke's involvement in any future productions after he was accused of sexual harassment and bullying.
It said in a statement: "Sky stands against all forms of sexual harassment and bullying and takes any allegations of this nature extremely seriously.
"Effective immediately, we have halted Noel Clarke's involvement in any future Sky productions."
so hes already lost awards and work purely on ALLEGATIONS.
What a horrifying article. This part near the end really speaks volumes:
Clarke said he had not done the things he was being accused of, adding: “If there’s someone that was like a consensual that’s changed their mind five years later, well, firstly, that’s fucking ridiculous. Secondly, they still have to prove it. And I’m not trying to be that guy that’s like: hahaha I’m guilty, prove it. I’m not trying to be that guy. But they still have to prove it.”
Sexual harassment is a crime that's virtually impossible for a victim to prove unless she's walking around wearing a GoPro on her head. Telling 20 women to "prove it" is just so telling. He knows they can't and the only strength of their claims is in the sheer number of them.
What a disappointing person he turned out to be. I hope the women he's victimized can find some peace from getting this all out in the open.
Okay, yeah, its difficult to prove 'harassment' from a conversation between two parties that only they were privy to.
It's literally
impossible to prove that
no such thing happened. That's literally why the burden of proof is on somebody making the claim.
And let's take a look at some of those 'sheer number' of claims:
Another woman to accuse Clarke of inappropriate sharing of images is Ieva Sabaliauskaite, a production assistant on Brotherhood. At the wrap party on 21 December 2015, Sabaliauskaite was on the dancefloor, showing colleagues her abilities as a former gymnast, including doing the splits. The next day, Sabaliauskaite saw Clarke in the production office, surrounded by a group of people. “They were sniggering and looking at me,” she says.
Sabaliauskaite says Clarke was showing them a photo he had taken of her in a compromising position, her underwear visible. Three other witnesses told the Guardian they recalled Clarke boasting about his photograph of Sabaliauskaite. Sabaliauskaite says she remembers the image of her knickers on Clarke’s phone so clearly that she “could draw it”. She recalls feeling mortified: “It’s kind of a massive humiliation.”
She instinctively lunged for Clarke’s phone; the phone dropped, breaking the screen. “He was angry,” she recalls. Sabaliauskaite says she took the phone containing the photo he had taken of her, a junior employee, to a repair shop to get it fixed. “It was the final act of humiliation,” she says. Clarke’s lawyers stressed the photograph was of Sabaliauskaite publicly doing the splits in the middle of the dancefloor and that it was not taken “up her skirt”, adding that many people present at the party would confirm this. Clarke, they added, had later merely “joked” about showing the image to colleagues. They confirmed Clarke asked Sabaliauskaite to fix the screen, saying she was “a production runner and such a task was part of her job”.
The actor and screenwriter Jing Lusi, who has starred in Crazy Rich Asians and Gangs of London, worked with Clarke on the film SAS: Red Notice, shot in Budapest in 2018. Clarke invited Lusi for dinner on 27 November 2018. During the meal, Clarke summoned the waiter for the cheque before Lusi had finished eating. She asked what the hurry was. According to Lusi, Clarke said that he wanted them to go to his place to have sex. She recalls laughing in disbelief. “He said he couldn’t help it: ‘It’s how you make me feel, I just really want to,’” she says. “Really laying it on thick and grossly and quite explicitly.”
According to Lusi’s account, when she made it clear she would not have sex with Clarke, his demeanour changed. Lusi says: “After he realised that it was not going to happen, he then absolutely without any emotion [said]: ‘All right, fine, don’t tell anyone about this, yeah? ’Cause if you do, it will get back to me, I will find out.’”
The next morning, Clarke sent her an emoji of a person with their finger to their lips, which she took as an indication that she should not tell anyone about his inappropriate behaviour. But Lusi did tell friends and others how disturbed she was by the incident. A friend she contacted three days afterwards recalls: “She messaged me and said: ‘Dude I’ve been #MeTooed at work by another actor and then sworn to secrecy and threatened.’”
Helen Atherton was an art director on Brotherhood and alleges that Clarke violated industry norms for the ethical filming of sex or nude scenes. Clarke’s production team hired strippers to perform some scenes, instead of professional actors who, Atherton says, would be aware of industry-standard protocols during shoots involving nudity.
Crabb began to dread their car journeys. One morning, she was 10 minutes late to collect Clarke. Powell was in the back seat. “He literally screamed at us in the car,” recalls Crabb. “I was completely in shock. I’ve never had someone scream at me before.” She says she was fearful of Clarke and learned to placate him when he was yelling at her. “He’s a scary person,” she says. Powell said she could not recall the specifics of the car journey, other than that Clark “yelled” at the runner because she was late. Clarke denies bullying or sexually harassing Crabb, denies he is a scary person and denies shouting at her in the car.
Because it really seems like a hit piece looking for anyone with any kind of axe to grind to pile on with any accusation no matter how flimsy
for the sake of propping up the overall flimsiness of the initial report by weight of numbers, and good old "where there's smoke...".
It's not fucking 'great work' by the guardian
