Kate Beckinsale reveals years of abuse and sexism on set: ‘Forced to do photoshoot day after miscarriage’
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Actor says Blake Lively’s suit against Justin Baldoni highlights ‘machine that goes into effect when a woman complains about something legitimately offensive’. Kate Beckinsale has responded to Blake Lively’s lawsuit against Justin Baldoni saying she herself faced years of sexist harassment and abuse on Hollywood sets.
![[Kate Beckinsale in Underworld]](https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2016/05/31/15/underworld-selene.jpg)
In an Instagram video, the Underworld star said while she didn’t know Lively or Baldoni, she wanted to focus on the “machine that goes into effect when a woman complains about something”. “So this is not Christmassy at all and I do apologise but it is topical and I think it is very important. I’ve been following, as a lot of people have, this situation between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni and I must stress I don’t know either of them, I’ve never met either of them and I wasn’t on the set so I can’t speak to any of that,” Beckinsale said.
![[Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni in a scene from It Ends With Us]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/08/07/16/Film_Review_-_It_Ends_With_Us_53247.jpg)
“But what I will say is what it has highlighted is this machine that goes into effect when a woman complains about something legitimately offensive, upsetting, harmful or whatever in this industry.”. The Aviator star recalled being referred to as “that c***” on one film set because she had called out a male actor who was “drunk every day” and refused to learn his lines.
“I’ve been on a film, for example, where I was by the end of it referred to over the walkie-talkie and to my face as ‘that c***,’ because I had said I’m finding it very difficult, my co-star is drunk every day. He was going through something. I have sympathy for that, but I was waiting, as was the crew, for six hours a day for him to learn his lines,” Beckinsale said.
