"There’s a sexism that happens towards men."From: NewNowNext
Kit Harrington acknowledged Hollywood’s sexism problem in a new interview with the Sunday Times, saying there’s “definitely a sexism in our industry that happens towards women” but that it’s an issue many young male actors face as well.
“I like to think of myself as more than a head of hair or a set of looks,” the 29-year-old actor, best known for his role as Jon Snow on HBO’s Game of Thrones, told the paper.
He went on to describe times that he’s felt objectified by photographers and other industry folk who treated him as nothing more than a hot body attached to a pretty face.
“It’s demeaning,” he continued. “Yes, in some ways you could argue I’ve been employed for a look I have. But there’s a sexism that happens towards men. There’s definitely a sexism in our industry that happens towards women, and there is towards men as well … At some points during photo shoots when I’m asked to strip down, I felt that.”
Harrington went on to say that if he ever felt like he “was being employed just for my looks,” he’d “stop acting.”
The actor last spoke about feeling discrimination last March, when he first described being put on a pedestal for his hunky, chiseled body as “demeaning.”
“I’m in a successful TV show in a kind of leading man way and it can sometimes feel like your art is being put to one side for your sex appeal,” he told Page Six at the time. “And I don’t like that.”
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