Kate Beckinsale speaks out on being assaulted on set and mistreatment in Hollywood

Kate Beckinsale has detailed instances where she was assaulted on set during her career as a film actor. “There’s a certain kind of actor who gets a kind of a thrill out of sort of being able to legally harm a woman during a fight sequence,” she said. “What’s really depressing is I see a lot of men going around saying, ‘Oh, it was very different a while ago, you know, the climate is do different and it’s so much better’,” Beckinsale said. I’m grateful to Blake Lively for highlighting the fact that this is not an archaic problem that no one’s facing – this is continuing.” Beckinsale also recalled facing criticism over her appearance, including having “groups of people stand in front of me, going, ‘What the f*** are we going to do? And she was like, ‘You have to or you’ll be sued’.” In her post’s caption, Beckinsale added: “I don’t want our younger generation of actresses to be facing all the same things as we all do and did, but they have it even worse because of social media and how that can be weaponised to a literally nuclear level, designed to eviscerate”.