Sexual Harassment, Fox News and Feminine Vision: Why "Bombshell" with Charlize Theron Will Make Her Talk a Lot

Sexual Harassment, Fox News and Feminine Vision: Why "Bombshell" with Charlize Theron Will Make Her Talk a Lot

The film, shot last fall, could not find a better title. "Bombshell" (translate "big shock") comes to highlight one of the most resounding scandals of the American media world. Or how Roger Ailes, founder of the very conservative Fox News, was fired from his own chain in July 2016 after accusations of sexual harassment. That's almost a year and a half before the Harvey Weinstein affair broke out and the #MeToo movement started.

Director Jay Roach ("Austin Powers", "My father-in-law, my parents and I") trusted John Lithgow (currently starring "Late Night", Barney's father in "How I put your mother ") to embody the tycoon who died in May 2017. But it will be necessary to wait to discover it in the skin of the republican. "It's really a film about women, about six or seven extremely different women who had extremely different experiences and answers in this crisis," he told Deadline earlier this year.

Because it is above all the management of his contracts, in which he had include a clause "social networks", which brought him big. Dwayne Johnson transforms into a digital sandwich man for his films, which he lauds through multiple posts on Facebook (58 million subscribers), Instagram (154 million subscribers) and Twitter (13.7 million subscribers) ). Each paid for gold, as Forbes said last year by revealing that The Rock had become the highest paid actor in history.
Megyn Kelly had revealed the harassment she had suffered early in her career after Gretchen Carlson broke the silence. She had mentioned attempts to hand to the buttocks and kisses on the lips. "I did not know how complicated her situation was and I think a lot of people did not understand why she did not speak, she was in a difficult situation and as a person I I do not think many people really understand this, "explained to Variety Charlize Theron about the journalist she embodies.

Charlize Theron unrecognizable as Megyn Kelly

If the physical resemblance between Nicole Kidman and Gretchen Carlson is not obvious, the one between Charlize Theron and Megyn Kelly is impressive. That's what came out mostly from comments on Twitter, some Internet users already calling for an Oscar for the makeup team of the South African actress. And this is not the only statuette that could grab the film. "Bombshell" has the audacity to tackle a scandal of recent sexual harassment involving a public figure, just three years after the revelation of the facts. The television - whose mini-series "The Loudest Voice" with Russell Crowe in Roger Wings on the same subject - has already done so. But for Hollywood, it's a first when the film industry struggles to defeat its post-Weinstein demons.

The three actresses could also be well placed for an Oscar nomination. We know how much Hollywood loves true stories and biopics -coucou Rami Malek and Olivia Colman, Oscar winners this year for their interpretation of Freddie Mercury and Queen Anne. The release date of "Bombshell", scheduled for December 20 in the United States and January 29 in France, could not be better chosen. Because it will allow the film to be eligible for the Oscars while being fresh enough in the minds of voters of the Academy.