Former Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin’s wife, Louise Linton, has a new film coming out and it’s deeply problematic.
Me You Madness is Linton’s directorial and writing debut. She also stars in the vanity project, which is scheduled to be released on demand later this week.
Alex Ritman at The Hollywood Reporter writes:
Linton stars in the film alongside Ed Westwick (Gossip Girl), playing a glamorous sociopathic bisexual woman who lives a life of luxury in Malibu. When Tyler (Westwick), a petty thief, responds to her online roommate ad, he thinks he’s struck gold. What he doesn’t realize is that she is a serial killer who hunts down and kills men with crossbows, chainsaws, and kitchen knives … and that he might be her next meal.
A greedy bisexual sociopath who manipulates and murders people? Way to lean into every single untrue bisexual stereotype out there, Louise.
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This is about as offensive as that time billionaire transphobe JK Rowling wrote a novel about a male serial killer who dresses up like a woman to murder his female victims.
Of course, this is hardly the first time Linton has exercised bad judgment.
In 2017, she made headlines for mocking the poor after a mother in Portland called her out on Twitter for bragging about traveling on the taxpayer’s dime and flashing her extreme wealth.
Linton went on an absolutely insane tirade, calling the woman “adorably out of touch” and telling her to “go chill out and watch the new game of thrones.”
“I’m pretty sure we paid more taxes toward our day ‘trip’ than you did. Pretty sure the amount we sacrifice per year is a lot more than you’d be willing to sacrifice if the choice was yours.”
Then she hashtagged all the pieces of her expensive designer wardrobe, including #rolandmouret, #hermesscarf, #tomford, and #valentino.
Related: Treasury secretary’s wife mocks the poor, wants everyone to know she’s better than them
Afterwards, both Tom Ford and Valentino issued statements distancing themselves from Linton, who said the blowback she received from the post left her “deeply depressed.”
In a 2019 interview with LA Magazine, she said, “It sucks being perceived as a person that you’re not; it sucks being hated.”
“That whole Instagram thing happened because I got some bad advice. My advisers at the time were telling me to be glamorous and fashionable.”
Since then, Linton has said many times that she doesn’t want people to think of her as a money-hungry, out of touch elitist who looks down on poor people. Which, of course, begs the question… Why’d she go and make a movie about being exactly that?
Watch the trailer below. Or don’t.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
KerryB
So, it’s a documentary then?
stvrsnbrgr
Biopic
stonercharles
PERFECT!!!
Monkey1
LOL this looks ridiculous. But since when is a greedy bisexual sociopath who manipulates and murders people every single untrue bisexual stereotype out there?
Cam
@Monkey1
What a shock, the Trump troll account tries to take issue with the description.
barryaksarben
DONT EVEN TRY. Just think about “Basic INstinct” and oh so so many other depictions of bisexuals on film. This film looks as shallow as the woman who made it. She who lists the names of designers as descriptions of her life. PATHETIC GREEDY PIG
Monkey1
OK Barry, Basic Instinct sure, she’s not a pleasant person (and obviously this is a poor rip off of that movie), but i’m struggling to find more movies where bisexual people are portrayed as evil-doers, even from the past. P*ssy Galore from Goldfinger maybe? The character Otis from the movie “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer” is bisexual and helps kill, but that’s based on a real-life villain and the main villain, Henry, is straight. And let us say it was a problem way back when… these days we’re free to have good and bad characters of any sexuality.
Cam
Linton also tried to write a book years ago and it was pulled off the shelves and cancelled because it was the ultimate fake “White Savior” narrative and was mocked so badly the publisher pulled it.
KyleMichelSullivan
This is a no, for me. I’ve seen Basic Instinct and Beverly Hills Cop 2. I’m good for glam killer bitches and dumb-bunny boiz…
Mack
Now all the right wing religious dipshits will say that all bisexuals are murderous sociopaths and use this movie to prove it. You can’t fix stupidity.
Donston
This looks like more of a tired genre retread than anything offensive.
barryaksarben
She and her husband are offensive. He financed this pos with money he stole from taxpayers is my take
Cam
The epitome of a Gold Digger. She grew up upper middle class, but didn’t really have a way to support herself.
Never mind, I take it back, she and Steve Mnuchin was obviously a match of pure love.
stonercharles
HA LOVE IT!!!
Selverd
“This is about as offensive as that time billionaire transphobe JK Rowling wrote a novel about a male serial killer who dresses up like a woman to murder his female victims.”
Except she didn’t write a novel about that.
Cam
3 second Google search says you’re wrong.
http : //www.forbes. com /sites/lisettevoytko/2020/09/14/jk-rowlings-new-book-about-a-cross-dressing-serial-killer-draws-outrage/?sh=1aff6bf032d0
Monkey1
I’m afraid that Selverd is technically correct in this one, Cam. The killer in Rowling’s book is loosely based on a serial killer Jerry Brudos who murdered a woman and fled the scene dressed as a woman There have been other murderers/serial killers who have used the same ploy to dupe women, such as Hadden Clark who would wear women’s clothing to break into women’s houses and assault and kill them. She also based it on Russell Williams a Canadian serial killer who would keep mementos of the killings in the form of the women’s underwear.
The killer in JK’s book is not a cross-dresser or trans person. He doesn’t wear a dress or go full out trying to look like a women. According to the Guardian and The Spectator the killer will put on a wig, woman’s coat and some lipstick. Here’s a quote from the book, “In a wig, bit of lipstick, they think you’re harmless, odd… maybe queer.”
Long post I know, but the killer does not “dress up as a woman to murder his female victims” Technically he’s putting on some elements of women’s clothing to lure them into a sense of safety, which is based on real-life incidents.
You have to read past the headline and of course research from mulitple sources for the truth about any matter, most sites are biased.
Cam
@Monkey1
So your argument is that the killer didn’t cross dress, then in the next sentence you describe the killer cross dressing.
Monkey1
No Cam, that’s not what I said. The implication by the media and people who heard of the book is that the killer was a cross dresser. This gives people the impression that he would put on women’s clothing and trying to pass as a woman which many people presumed meant he would go all-out and wear a dress, full makeup etc. He does put on some elements of women’s clothing though, but I wouldn’t call that cross dressing or trying to pass as a woman.
Cam
Hi @Monkey1
Look, I get it, that your job is to defend anti-LGBTQ bigots and to attack their victims, but you already tried to defend Rowling on another thread when the story about the book came out and you failed.
As I’ve told you multiple times, your right wing troll game is old and tired.
Selverd
@Cam I’m aware of the backlash that was started by pinknews when they hadn’t read the book, yes.
From guardian:
>> The Telegraph review chose to go big on [the character] Creed, describing him as “a transvestite serial killer” and asking “what critics of Rowling’s stance on trans issues” would make of it. But Creed is just one of many suspects – and without giving too much away, he is not the main villain, nor is he portrayed as trans or even called a “transvestite” by Rowling.
Cam
@Selverd
So first you claim she didn’t do it, then change it to “well she did, but that person wasn’t the only person”.
Nice Try.
Selverd
@Cam Saying Rowling wrote a book about that character is like using Arabella Figg to say that Harry Potter is about an old lady with several cats.
Jack Meoff
Maybe this will give Showgirls a run for its money as worst movie ever made
garybw
Who