Rose McGowan Rips Natalie Portman’s Oscars Cape: ‘You Are the Problem’
Natalie Portman’s Oscar night cape, embroidered with the names of snubbed female directors, earned raves on Sunday’s red carpet—but not everyone was a fan. On Tuesday Rose McGowan railed against the garment on Facebook, saying that although Portman likes to talk the talk of a feminist activist, “I just want her and other actresses to walk the walk.”
Portman received widespread praise on Sunday for her cloak; it felt like a canny callback to the 2018 Golden Globes, where the actor first introduced the directing category by saying, “And here are the all-male nominees.” But McGowan was not so dazzled. Portman’s cape is the “kind of protest that gets rave reviews from the mainstream media for its bravery,” she wrote. “Brave? No, not by a long shot. More like an actress acting the part of someone who cares. As so many of them do.”
“I find Portman’s type of activism deeply offensive to those of us who actually do the work,” McGowan continued. “I’m not writing this out of bitterness, I am writing out of disgust.”