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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not going to watch Bohemian Rhapsody either. The director flies a huge red flag with the latest allegations against him. [/quote]

Bryan Singer started out directing the film but got booted and another director finished it.

I dislike the idea of unthinkingly rejecting a film -- which involves dozens or even hundreds of participants working sometimes over years -- because any particular director or producer (think, Harvey Weinstein, shudder) touched it too. I definitely understand not ever being able to watch a certain actor, like Kevin Spacey, again. I think he's extremely talented but won't re-watch his work. But it seems harsh to throw out the work of many, many innocent people because a slime was on the unseen side of it. In the case of a Roman Polanski, where every film is ABOUT the fact it's A Roman Polanski Film, I do understand never wanting to see the work at all.

I don't know about the whole cast but certainly Rami Malek has said he had no idea about the allegations circulating about Singer back when Malek signed on for the movie. Someone here will post "Well, he should have known, everyone should have known, rumors for ages, etc." but that's assuming people are going to reject work based on...something they may never even have heard, or may have heard only vaguely.

I think that with #metoo, people in entertainment now are telling their agents etc. to dig deep to ensure directors, producers, costars, writers (i.e. James Gunn: old tweets) or guest artists (like R. Kelly, now being disowned by any singer who ever did a duet with him) have nothing on them. That will eventually weed out problematic people--or at least drive their behavior way underground....
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