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Stunt Performer Sues Kevin Costner and ‘Horizon 2’ Over Unscripted Rape Scene

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Kevin Costner Sued By ‘Horizon 2’ Stunt Performer Over Unscripted Rape Scene

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One day in May 2023, stunt performer Devyn LaBella showed up to the Utah set of Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2, the second part of the sprawling Western series from Kevin Costner, expecting to double for one of the film’s stars in some basic, fairly boring shots. Instead, she says, she was surprised by being subjected to an unscripted, brutal rape scene without proper notice, consent or the presence of a contractually mandated intimacy coordinator.
Now, LaBella is suing Costner and the film’s production companies for sexual discrimination, harassment and the creation of a hostile work environment. Moreover, the complaint alleges LaBella faced retaliation after she reported the incident by not being called back for subsequent work on the Horizon series and never being hired again by the film’s stunt coordinator, with whom she had worked previously
- What's the sexual discrimination here
  
  On your rap sheet, I'm assuming
  
  Why are you allowed internet access?
Forget the civil suit for a minute. This is a crime. People belong in prison.
The defence that it was a rehearsal isn't a defence. You still need clear boundaries, and to make both actors comfortable. There still should have been an intimacy coordinator.
This isn't nice for male actors either, they could have been abused themselves. They could have heard it happening to a parent or sibling growing up. If the lawsuit is correct it's just awful all round.
This is fucking disgusting and, as mentioned by others here, literally fucking crime
Moreover, given that Hunt and LaBella are members of the performers union SAG-AFTRA, their intimate scenes would also be subject to the labor group’s regulations, which call for prior notice, consent and a closed set.
...so for non-unionized talents the industry assumes it doesn't need prior notice or consent?
- Unions are about collective power, and power brings many things, one of them being survival.
- It's called the Weinstein legacy clause
Uhh.... Someone was literally raped on set, in front of an audience, and no one got arrested? Are you fucking serious?
- No, it was a depiction of fictional rape for the film. Given the coercion, lack of protocol, and the way she was physically handled make it a sexual assault in my opinion, but legally-speaking I think she can only complain about the contract violation and retaliatory behavior causing financial damages.
- Yeah, it’s pretty fucked that the male actor didn’t say something about the intimacy coordinator not being present, the fact there wasn’t prior notice, and so on. Definitely makes him complicit at best.
- There is a long history of these shenanigans in film. During the filming of "last tango in paris", the male lead and the director conspired to sodomize the female lead as a "surprise" to get a more genuine "performance". Roman Polanski drugged and rapped a teenager. The great auteur Kubrick, is famous for harassing and abusing the Shelly Duvall, again, for the sake of her "performance".
  Statistically, for every Weinstein who see's the inside of a prison for abusing women, ten Woody Alans walk around free. Rape as a sex crime is barely illegal in the US. Rape as a property crime is punished to the full extent...

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