Sean Penn Against The MeToo Movement — It's Dividing Men And Women

NBC interviewer Natalie Morales asked the pair if the strong female characters in the show were informed by the #MeToo movement.

“Yeah, and for me in life, that’s not unusual,” McElhone said. “I don’t see that as aberrant. I get that in TV and in a lot of our media women haven’t been depicted in that way, and I find that deeply disturbing.”

Penn disagreed: “I’d like to think that none of it was influenced by what they call the movement of #MeToo.”

“I think it’s influenced by the things that are developing in terms of the empowerment of women who’ve been acknowledging each other and being acknowledged by men,” he continued. “This is a movement that was largely shouldered by a kind of receptacle of the salacious.”

“Well, we don’t know what’s a fact in many of the cases,” Penn said. “Salacious is as soon as you call something a movement that is really a series of many individual accusers, victims, accusations, some of which are unfounded.