Gilles Marini, who played Samantha Jones’ boy toy in the 2008 Sex and the City film, has opened up about his experiences with Hollywood execs in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.
“I was approached by extremely powerful people,” he tells People. “I became a piece of meat for many executives in Hollywood.”
“This man doesn’t need to go to a sexual addiction [treatment],” says the 41-year-old French actor/model. “That is a joke to me. When you violate someone, the only place you need to go is jail.”
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As for Harvey Weinstein, the 65-year-old movie mogul has reportedly told friends the scandal — which involves over 80 women coming forward to share their stories of his sexual harassment — will ultimately help him “change the world,” according to Page Six.
A source close to the situation says, “Harvey believes he is a savior.”
Meanwhile, publicists for the producer continue to claim that “any allegations of nonconsensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr. Weinstein.”
Smith David
Sadly, that is how I saw him too. In fact, I still only view him as a piece of meat.
Ummmm Yeah
Well what do you expect when you show more meat than deliver lines in a movie? He got hit on. So what? He wasn’t attacked.
WeHoGuy69
So when a Playgirl model gets raped, that’s ok. Gotcha.
Knight
Exactly. He was “approached”…but I didn’t hear any abuse here, did you?
Donston
I will admit, I don’t have much sympathy for Gilles. He was in the modeling world for many years, which is arguably even worse than Hollywood when it comes to this stuff, and he didn’t somewhat break into Hollywood until he was almost 40. He can’t claim naivety or youthful stupidity and desperation. Plus, he has zero talent. Of course, he was a piece of meat and of course he likely obliged many times. There would be no other use for him.
Knight
Agreed on all fronts (frontal?)
tham
He’s a skin model (80% of his headshots are shirtless…most of them in speedos…a lot of wet ones).
When you obviously sell sex, you are going to be treated like a skin model.
Why is it, when people sell sex, that they complain about people only seeing them as overtly sexual?
Knight
Agreed. Both men AND women need to learn when they go around flaunting their naked body for money, people are not just going to LOOK, but stop taking anything else they have to offer seriously.
DCguy
Awwww, how adorable, we have one of the screenames of the anti-lgbt troll Mo Bro in here again trying to deflect from anything to do with Harassment, and that same new account screename that tried to defend Spacey attacking a kid saying that the guy asked for it.
So basically these two screenames are saying that if a woman is wearing a short skirt and was raped, she was asking for it.
tham
Who are you talking about?
Stache
That’s not Mo bro’s usual interest though. Nor would he be defending anyone in Hollywood.
Heywood Jablowme
Actually, no.
Mo Bro has been attacking Spacey because Spacey supported Hillary. Or so Mo Bro says. That’s apparently the Fox News spin on it, so that’s what mindless right-wing automatons like Mo Bro are parroting.
(Spacey plays a president on TV but I don’t know how “political” he is IRL. Of course, if he sent even $500 to Hillary that makes him as “political” as Trump is, to the drooling Fox morons.)
But the new, mysterious defender of Kevin Spacey here seems to be someone else entirely.
Brian
Do you ever post anything that isn’t calling someone a sock puppet? Did you really have to make the same point 10,000 times? We get it already, someone please fix this broken record.
tham
@Brian
I’m convinced he’s apart of the MoBro posting farm. He’s account is to point out MoBro and start a conflict.
I’ve seen this exact thing on many different sites…almost verbatim. The Russians are playing a game of conflict, disorder. DCguy is defiantly part of it.
DCguy
And my post to bait the trolls exposed a bunch of them. Thanks guys.
Brian
Tham, you’re just as bad with blaming everything on “The Russians”. Hell, you even accused me of being one of them not too long ago. But now that I’ve posted something you agree with, suddenly I’m no longer suspect?
You’re both equally ridiculous and pathetic.
Paco
He had an awesome ass in that movie.
Stache
That was a sexy scene. Big schlong with a hot tanned bubble ass with water dripping down. Imagine walking into your guest house and finding a neighbor showering out in the open like that.
Knight
Stache if that’s your definition of “big” then you need to get out more.
Stache
Ha. Well, I can’t argue with you since they did a side profile only. Sure looked big.
Brian
I think a lot of you are missing the point. I don’t think most of the people telling their stories are looking for sympathy. I think they are adding their voices to the mix because they want to help illustrate how widespread and commonplace this type of behavior is.
I’m sure a lot of Hollywood bigwigs would like to claim that Harvey and Kevin are isolated cases (even though they know otherwise), but when you have actor after actor telling the same stories, it kills that defense.
prarie pup
Very true; when there are a couple of complainants they’re easily dismissed. When there are dozens of them telling the same story, that’s pretty hard to ignore.
prarie pup
This reminds me of a straight guy I knew in college (true story):
He worked for a video company that MAKES XXX GAY PORN FILMS (Strike #1).
His was a “stunt dick” in a couple of their productions that required a bunch of dicks shoved through a bunch of glory holes–no faces or bodies, just dicks (Strike #2).
When his gay boss hit on him he SUED FOR SEXUAL HARASSMENT or tried to anyway; he was laughed out of court, and his case was dismissed.
Knight
I was approached to be a “stunt dick” as well from three separate studios in N Cali (they had been forwarded my dick-pics from chats I had online with guys who I thought were legitimate potential hook-ups). I never partook, specifically because I knew how sleazy the industry was (found that out by the fact they were catfishing just for the prime-A beef through chats).
DCguy
And again, these are the same old arguments that were always used against women,
She was dressed like a slut, so she couldn’t have been raped.
Bradsman
I doubt if any big stars are going to publicly say they had sex to get where they are. So only minor celebrities, like Gilles are going to come forward. The true extant of this will never be known.
Knight
LOL…he WAS “a piece of meat”. His entire existence as a model is to stand there and look pretty. He definitely wasn’t casted in the SATC movie because of his acting abilities (which are non-existent). But what’s his real complaint here? That he’s not working anymore? Because I don’t hear any allegations of abuse here.
DCguy
And here again, is another troll saying basically….IF somebody is a model then they can’t be raped because they’re just a piece of meat.
Knight
DCPhucktard…he NEVER SAID HE WAS RAPED. He just said he was approached. Did your parents or teacher ever inform you of your severe learning disability, or did they just keep repeating what a “special boy” you were?
surreal33
It such a crock of sh*t when aging, talentless, “model” types spins the same tale of woe. Especially after years of making a living peddling flesh.