Actress Mira Sorvino confesses that she was "raped" during a date
It's not exactly clear who the real star is in
Impeachment,
the new installment of
American Crime Story
from the always sharp and persuasive
Ryan Murphy
. A priori, it should be
Monica Lewinsky
, but the gallery of secondary characters in the series that recreates the multiple ramifications of the
scandal that rocked Bill Clinton's presidency
is so explosive that it could well be
Linda Tripp
(the treacherous friend who handed Lewinsky over to the FBI), the prosecutor-hound
Kenneth Starr, Paula Jones
(the first woman to denounce Clinton for harassment) or
Marcia Lewis, Lewinsky's mother,
who is played by a wonderful Mira Sorvino.
The actress had been away from big projects for a couple of decades, but she is back. He is shooting a biopic about
Ferruccio Lamborghini
and this year he will release a handful of films and two series. His return to the front line in 2020 was also hand in hand with Ryan Murphy, who gave him
a very symbolic role in
Hollywood
.
There Sorvino played a movie star come to less for having had an affair with a tycoon who had decided to sink his career. In the series, which played to imagine a utopian Hollywood (without racism or homophobia), his character received
an opportunity after years of ostracism.
Sorvino went from being one of the most popular Hollywood stars to starring in B-series telefilms. The winner of
an Oscar and a Golden Globe
in 1996 for Woody Allen's
Mighty Aphrodite
was one of the most emblematic faces of cinema in the 90s independent, starring in films such as
Beautiful Girls
and
Blue in the face.
But
her career plummeted in the 2000s,
when she went on to play Santa's wife in
Looking for Santa Claus.
A case similar to that of
Ashley Judd,
who went from sharing the screen with
Al Pacino and Robert De Niro
in
Heat
to acting in
The Big Adventure of Winter the Dolphin
and
The Big Adventure of Winter the Dolphin 2
.
Both have in common having refused to give in to the sexual blackmail of Harvey Weinstein.
In Sorvino's case, the height of success and the beginning of bullying coincided at the same time and place:
the 1995 Toronto Film Festival
. There she began dating
Quentin Tarantino (who had released
Pulp Fiction
a year earlier
and was the jewel in the Miramax crown) and
Mighty Aphrodite
was seen for the first time , where she masterfully plays a prostitute with a heart of gold. Years later, Sorvino explained that, during the festival, Weinstein tried to make
unwanted physical contact
with her in a hotel room.
Ronan Farrow
explained it
in the famous article in
The New Yorker
that lit the MeToo fuse and ended with the founder of Miramax convicted of rape.
"I knew enough to have done more than I did," Tarantino acknowledged shortly after.
Peter Jackson
also confessed that he tried to cast Ashley Judd and Sorvino for the
Lord of the Rings
trilogy , but was dissuaded.
«I remember that they told us that they were a nightmare to work and that we had to avoid them at all costs.
Seen now I realize that it
was a smear campaign
», said the New Zealander.
Two decades later, Sorvino's return tastes like
victory deferred
, albeit bittersweet.
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