In a post to her Facebook page earlier today, actress Ellen Page made shocking allegations against director Brett Ratner, saying that her subjected her to homophobic abuse while on the set of X-Men: The Last Stand.
At the start of her account, she details an incident that took place before filming commenced, when she says Ratner “outed” her at a cast and crew meeting, saying:
“You should fuck her to make her realize she’s gay.” He said this about me during a cast and crew “meet and greet” before we began filming, X Men: The Last Stand. I was eighteen years old. He looked at a woman standing next to me, ten years my senior, pointed to me and said: “You should fuck her to make her realize she’s gay.” He was the film’s director, Brett Ratner.
Page said that she felt deeply disturbed after this, adding:
I was a young adult who had not yet come out to myself. I knew I was gay, but did not know, so to speak. I felt violated when this happened. I looked down at my feet, didn’t say a word and watched as no one else did either. This man, who had cast me in the film, started our months of filming at a work event with this horrific, unchallenged plea. He “outed” me with no regard for my well-being, an act we all recognize as homophobic. I proceeded to watch him on set say degrading things to women. I remember a woman walking by the monitor as he made a comment about her “flappy pussy.”
In her lengthy account, she goes on to describe an incident in which the director pressured her, in front of cast and crew, to wear a shirt that said Team Ratner, a request she refused. She told him “I am not on your team”, which later led to a confrontation in her trailer, when production staff told her she “couldn’t talk to him like that.”
Elsewhere in the post, Page called her role in Woody Allen‘s To Rome With Love the biggest regret of her career, saying she felt pressured to appear in it because of the prestigious status of Allen’s films.
In her concluding remarks, Page said that a “long-awaited reckoning” is coming for Hollywood’s abusers, adding:
I want to see these men have to face what they have done. I want them to not have power anymore. I want them to sit and think about who they are without their lawyers, their millions, their fancy cars, houses upon houses, their “playboy” status and swagger.
You can read the entire thing here on Ellen Page’s Facebook page.
