Friday 21 Friday, March 29, 2019 Lifestyle |Music & Movies based on respect,” the actress said. Thurman hails #MeToo She said the #MeToo effect was “definitely producing a better working environment for women. There were so many situations where you could not have been in a worse working environment — but warns of danger of I take that back, actually you probably could — but you had to sur- vive that kind of stuff. It is definitely safer,” she said. “I get 12 shades of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) just watching myself ‘crushing creativity’ now,” she joked, after looking at a showreel of her earlier work. Thurman — who plays a grieving mother in the new Netflix S actress Uma Thurman said the #MeToo movement is supernatural horror series which will start streaming next month transforming Hollywood for the better but warned that it — said #MeToo has “already made a difference” to the kind of Ushouldn’t be used to “crush people’s creativity”. The star roles being written for women. “There are lots more real parts of “Pulp Fiction” and the “Kill Bill” movies, whose actress daugh- (around) and you don’t just sit around talking about men, although ter Maya Hawke will appear in Quentin Tarantino’s new film, “Once I admit I talk about men all the time,” she added. Upon a Time in Hollywood”, said the movement is a “long overdue correction” to the treatment of women in the film industry. Von Trier is ‘real artist’ “I am so happy about it especially as I have a 20-year-old The depressingly ironic thing, she said, “it seems to me that be- daughter who has decided to give her life to film, television and fore Women’s Lib there were often better roles for women in Betty the theatre,” she said. But the actress, who is starring in a new Davis” films and the like than there were in recent years. Thurman, Netflix show “Chambers”, which premiered Wednesday at the Se- who made her big screen debut as Venus in Terry Gilliam’s “The ries Mania festival in the northern French city of Lille, warned Adventures of Baron Munchausen” when she was just 16, said against a slip into puritanism. “In a certain way I don’t want this working with Tarantino had been her career high so far. “I truly to crush people’s creativity,” she told reporters. feel blessed having worked with him. He is such a genius.” But she also defended the controversial Danish auteur Lars von ‘Don’t want to get arrested’ Trier, whose latest shocker, “The House That Jack Built”, was seen “It would still be nice to fall in love with your leading man and as giving the finger to the #MeToo movement. Thurman, who not get arrested,” Thurman added, referring to her marriage to played the first victim of its woman-hating serial killer, admitted fellow actor Ethan Hawke, who she met on “Gattaca” in 1997. that it could be difficult working with the director, having also US actress Uma Thurman poses during a photo call on the occasion starred in his notorious 2013 movie, “Nymphomaniac”. “I think he Thurman, 48, had earlier married English star Gary Oldman after of the ‘Series Mania Festival’ in Lille, northern France, on March meeting him on the set of “State of Grace”. “I think we are moving is funny. His material is tough, and it was tough for me to do, but from a very ignorant place to a better, more creative place that is he is a real artist. I respect him,” she said. — AFP 26, 2019. — AFP Fury at Rammstein’s ‘repulsive’ Holocaust clip Cardi B points to erman hardrock band Rammstein sparked protests Frontman Till Lindemann, 56, asked in a 2006 interview ‘limited options’ for from politicians, historians and Jewish groups yester- whether the band would again dabble in Nazi themes, said: Gday with a video showing band members dressed as “No. Because I am fed up with allegations of being a concentration camp prisoners with nooses around their rightwing band.” However, in the new promotional clip, the drugging, robbing men necks. Critics accused the Berlin-based group of a cynical band members are dressed in black-and-white striped con- publicity stunt playing with Nazi-era imagery to generate centration camp garb and seemingly awaiting their execution media hype and online clicks for their new single. by hanging. Lindemann is shown bleeding from a facial cut No strangers to controversy, the band has long employed and guitarist Paul Landers, 54, wears a Star of David. dark militaristic imagery and in a 1998 video used footage At the end of the 35-second clip, the song title “Deutsch- from Leni Riefenstahl’s 1936 Nazi propaganda film “Olympia”. land” (Germany) appears in Gothic letters. Bild quoted a line- “With this new video, the band has crossed a line,” said Char- up of politicians who voiced anger and disgust, with Jewish lotte Knobloch, ex-president of the Central Council of Jews historian Michael Wolffsohn labeling it “a new form of dese- in Germany. “The instrumentalization and trivialization of the cration of the dead”. Germany’s anti-Semitism commissioner Holocaust shown in the images are irresponsible,” she told Felix Klein called it “a tasteless exploitation of artistic free- Bild daily. “Rammstein is misusing the suffering and murder dom” that “represents the transgression of a red line”. of millions for entertainment purposes in a frivolous and re- A year ago, German rappers Farid Bang and Kollegah pulsive way.” sparked outrage with lyrics boasting that their bodies were The industrial metal band founded in 1994 is known for “more defined than Auschwitz prisoners”. The scandal spelt their grinding guitar riffs, taboo-breaking antics and theatrical the end of the German music industry’s sales-based Echo stage shows heavy on pyrotechnics. Their songs have dealt prize which had been awarded to the duo and helped spark with subjects from cannibalism to necrophilia, and the band large rallies calling for solidarity with Jews in Berlin and other name itself evokes the 1988 Rammstein air show disaster that cities. — AFP killed 70 people and injured more than 1,000. ed-hot rap queen Cardi B is working to quash controversy over resurfaced footage in which she admits to drugging and Rrobbing men, pointing to “limited options” in her days as a stripper. Social media backlash has swirled in recent days over the three-year-old clip taken from an Instagram live session, with the unfiltered rapper saying she “drugged (men) up, and I robbed them. That’s what I used to do.” Responding to the criticism over the video, the now 26-year-old went on the offensive on Instagram, saying she had discussed “things I had to do in my past right or wrong that I felt I needed to do to make a living.” “I was blessed to have been able to rise from that but so many women have not.” The expletive-laden video ap- pears to be a response to allegations that she hadn’t earned her suc- cess, with Cardi saying in it: “nothing was... handed to me.” But the clip triggered the hashtag #SurvivingCardiB, a reference to the bombshell docuseries “Surviving R Kelly” that refocused at- tention on sex abuse accusations against that R&B star. Many Twit- ter users alleged a double standard, saying her actions were comparable to those of male performers accused of sexual assault. “The men I spoke about in my live were men that I dated that I was involve with men that were conscious willing and aware,” she posted In this file photo taken on August 01, 2013 Til Lindemann of German rock bank Rammstein performs with flares on stage during heavy on Instagram late Tuesday. — AFP metal Wacken Open Air (WOA) Festival 2013 in Wacken, northern Germany. -— AFP .