“The year has been in some ways just extraordinary in a beautiful way and it’s been in some ways extraordinary in a really challenging way,” proclaims producer.From almost any perspective, that seems like an understatement from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer alumMarried last summer and expecting her first child this summer, Dushku has seen her more than a decade-long endeavor on the Ondi Timoner-directed film about the controversial and hyper-stylized photographer successfully make it to the big screen. After a premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, the Samuel Goldwyn Film distributed-picture, with former Dr. Who and The Crown star Matt Smith in the title role, made a leap today with openings in NYC, LA, Atlanta, Boston, Philadelphia, the nation’s capital and more. Related StoryAt the same time, Dollhouse star Dushku was thrust into a controversial spotlight of her own as it was revealed that the actor was to settle on the set of ’ concerning star Michael Weatherly.
Dec 14, 2018 When Eliza Dushku first arrived on CBS’ Bull — back in May 2017, long before documents would surface confirming that she was on track to become a series regular — it.
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Coming less than a year after Dushku herself about being sexually assaulted by a stuntman on True Lies when she was 12, the Bull situation originated from The New York Times publishing information from a leaked probe of ex-CBS boss Les Moonves’ behavior and the overall culture at the company.Restrained by a non-disclosure agreement as a part of her settlement, Dushku nonetheless penned an op-ed in her hometown paper the Boston Globe delivering her side of the story. “I didn’t leak the story, but I was not comfortable with the false narrative that had been propagated, as I wrote about in the Globe piece,” Dushku told me this week.Walking a legal line, the op-ed laid out as much as Dushku could what really happened with Weatherly. The actor also detailed why as a once expected series regular, she suddenly was written out of the Amblin Television-produced series after just a few episodes in its first season after presenting her concerns to the network.I sat down with the frank Dushku recently to talk about the making of Mapplethorpe, where she’s at now and how the current Boston-based Lesley University student got there this year.DEADLINE: So, as Mapplethorpe is about to open in L.A.
And expand across the country, and after a year of, well, a hell of a lot, how are you? DUSHKU: I am well, thank you. I’ve become good at sort of compartmentalizing even if some people see that as a good thing, some people see that as a bad thing. The year has been in some ways just extraordinary in a beautiful way and it’s been in some ways extraordinary in a really challenging way. However, I feel like this field that I’m studying now, holistic psychology, is about combining all of these — you know, your mind body and spirit — and it’s exactly what I’ve needed and where I’ve needed to be.So I feel like the universe was looking out for me in that.
And in another sense, everything was supposed to happen for us to get to Matt Smith playing Robert Mapplethorpe. He is so good in the movie.
Even people that don’t love the movie, they love Matt Smith in the movie.DEADLINE: In that vein, I know Mapplethorpe was not a film that came together quickly, but how did you get involved in your first run as a feature producer?DUSHKU: Well, the first time my brother brought me the script from the original writer was 14 years ago. We partnered with Ondi Timoner, the director and co-writer, and optioned the material from Mapplethorpe’s foundation, and it was a long, rough ride.DEADLINE: How so? I mean, I’d assume one of the hardest parts would be getting the foundation on board.DUSHKU: For us, there were a number of challenging factors.
We had different other cast involved at different times. We worked on the script with the help of the Sundance Institute. We had taken the script to the producer/writer/director labs and wanted to do it right.DEADLINE: Was Sundance helpful?DUSHKU: Yeah, it’s a tremendous resource.
They do exactly what I was talking about. They bring incredible mentors, and Robert Redford himself is up there.
They’re giving filmmakers the tools to shoot scenes and then they critique them, and we were really lucky to have some Sundance love.DEADLINE: So, talking about that rough ride, where was the love harder to find, so to speak?DUSHKU: (Laughs) Look, this is a business, and as we all know these art movies — whether it’s Frida or Basquiat — they’re not typically a Marvel movie in terms of the return. So you have to sort of find the right financiers for a movie that want to tell a story that’s important.DEADLINE: Did you think of packing it in by, say Year 10?DUSHKU: Honestly, sometimes, sometimes. I remember reading about Frida and Salma Hayek, talking about how she’d worked for 12 or 14 years on that movie. This was like just a few years into Mapplethorpe and I thought, “What, that’s insane, how could anyone spend that much time?” But every time it felt like the movie had fallen apart, and there’s no way to put Humpty Dumpty back together again, the sky would open up and a glimmer of light would come through and we would sort of like chase that light. DEADLINE: You mean like NDAs and legal threats?DUSHKU: To some degree. It’s scary, and I think, frankly, people need to be outspoken and say “We’re not accepting that.” That’s not who we are, that’s not what our democracy is based on.
We have our First Amendment rights, and we intend to use them and not have people strip them from us.So, to go back to Mapplethorpe, it’s extremely relevant right now. Also, in some ways, it’s wild because of the amount of time that it took to make this movie and yet the way that everything has lined up and the timing feeling so important and relevant. The anniversary of Mapplethorpe’s death was 30 years ago last week. The movie is now out across the country and expanding, and he has this beautiful exhibit in the Guggenheim in New York right now. It’s sort of this time of all things Mapplethorpe, so we have to believe that there’s something kismet in that.DEADLINE: To shift gears, obviously the sexual harassment that happened to you on Bull and the millions CBS paid out in the hopes it and you would go away put a different spotlight on you last year when a copy of the internal investigations over Les Moonves and the overall culture there to The New York Times. Even with the NDA you signed, you not long after penned an op-ed in the Boston Globe on some of your side of the story, and people should read that, can read that if they want to get your POV.
But in terms of NDAs, you recently said you believe that they re-victimize, what did you mean by that?DUSHKU: As we just talked about in terms or our rights as Americans, and to be able to be complete people, we need the right to stand in our power and in our truth. When you rob somebody of that or when you threaten somebody, it’s really damaging. Of course, I understand that journalists have their job and that they have to ask, but I also would hope that that’s something that people pay attention to. That part of my being able to heal and to move on is to be able to stand in the power that I produced this movie for 14 years and it’s doing incredibly well and we’re expanding this week. It’s an accomplishment having been an actor for so long, as my first feature as a producer and yeah, I’m really, I’m really psyched about that.DEADLINE: No argument thereDUSHKU: Yeah.
I’m not only in service of Mapplethorpe, I’m in service of everyone that came together to make this movie. While my story is important, I’ve talked about it, I’ve written about it. Now I want to be in service of this movie and this story and everyone that worked on it.DEADLINE: So what’s next?DUSHKU: (Laughs and points at her pregnant belly) Well, my next major production will be this summer in July and that’s right here. Other than that, I mean, god, to look back at almost 30 years in this business I feel like I’m just so grateful, I’m proud of so many of the things that I’ve done as a producer. You know, I was a producer on Dollhouse and that was an incredible experience. My brother and I also had produced a documentary about Albania with PBS, and it’s on Amazon now called Dear Albania.So what’s next is just having that freedom to tell any kinds of stories that I want to tell that are important to me.Subscribe to and keep your inbox happy.
There's a reason you haven't seen 's well-received J.P. Nunnelly in 's third season. The actress was written off the CBS drama after accusing star of sexual harassment, according to a new report from the.An investigation into the sexual harassment revealed a $9.5 million settlement between CBS and the star, who said that she was ousted from the series after confronting Weatherly about his inappropriate behavior.
The alleged harassment included comments about spanking Dushku over his knee, inquiring about a threesome and offering an unsolicited invitation to his 'rape van.' Dushku was paid a total of $9.5 million, the amount she would have made had she remained with the procedural as a series regular through four seasons.There had been 'well-developed plans' for Dushku to become a full-time cast member and more than just a potential love interest for Weatherly's lead character, Dr. Jason Bull, according to the CBS investigation.In a statement to the Times, Weatherly admitted to making the inappropriate comments and apologized for his behavior toward Dushku. 'During the course of taping our show, I made some jokes mocking some lines in the script. When Eliza told me that she wasn't comfortable with my language and attempt at humor, I was mortified to have offended her and immediately apologized.
After reflecting on this further, I better understand that what I said was both not funny and not appropriate and I am sorry and regret the pain this caused Eliza,' his statement read.The actor also described the 'rape van' line as an attempted joke about a line of dialogue for the show. 'The scripted line in that scene was, 'Hey, young lady, step into my windowless van.' I didn't particularly like that line, so I joked, in order to highlight how distasteful the emphasis of the line was, about an 'r. Van,' a rape van,' he said.In a statement to the Times, CBS confirmed the settlement and said it is committed to providing a safer work environment for its employees.' The allegations in Ms.
Dushku's claims are an example that, while we remain committed to a culture defined by a safe, inclusive and respectful workplace, our work is far from done,' the statement said. 'The settlement of these claims reflects the projected amount that Ms. Dushku would have received for the balance of her contract as a series regular, and was determined in a mutually agreed upon mediation process at the time.'
Calls to both Dushku's and Weatherly's attorneys were not returned. CBS did not return TV Guide's request for comment.Read the full story in.(Disclosure: TV Guide is owned by CBS.)( Disclosure: TV Guide is owned by CBS Interactive, a division of ViacomCBS.).