Celebrities defending Roman Polanski in 1977

These people are so fucked up and are completely unaware of it. On some level, it's entertaining. On another, it's disgusting.

The Rape Troll is typing from her mom's basement again.

God, give it a rest. Even the woman he raped back then says everyone should just get over it.

R3, but that doesn't excuse the celebrity comments shaming her, pretending it was her fault for what happened.

Debra Winger called it a "technicality"

It was not rape rape.

Martin Scorsese on losing the Oscar for Roman:

‘I’m so happy right now. Of all the people in the world that I’d want to lose to, it’s Roman. You have to understand that Polanski’s films have influenced me as an artist all these years and his terrible political situation has been something we have all had to suffer through. We won because Roman won.’”

Johnny Depp:

“Roman is not a predator,” continuing, “He’s 75 or 76 years old. He has got two beautiful kids, he has got a wife that he has been with for a long, long time. He is not out on the street.” Why now? Obviously there is something going on somewhere. Somebody has made a deal with someone. Maybe there was a little money involved, but why now?”

1977 was less than 10 years when Sharon Tate and their unborn child where brutally murdered

I know what he did was wrong, but can’t help but feel sympathy for him

Debra Tate (Sharon Tate's sister: Polanski) :

"There's rape and then there's rape," she said. "It was determined that Roman did not forcibly have sex with this woman. It was a consensual matter."

"I was under the impression that there was misconduct in the political genre itself and that based on that perhaps he could get a fair trial here," she said. "Since then, speaking with the district attorney's office, I agree that Roman could not necessarily be dealt with in a fair manner here in the US. I think that this matter better be served in France."

It was not rape, it was a seduction

OP is getting married. OP is registered on the offender list! Gifts appreciated

Anjelica Huston:

“Well, see, it’s a story that could’ve happened 10 years before in England or France or Italy or Spain or Portugal, and no one would’ve heard anything about it. And that’s how these guys enjoy their time.

“It was a whole playboy movement in France when I was a young girl, 15, 16 years old, doing my first collections. You would go to Régine or Castel in Paris, and the older guys would all hit on you. Any club you cared to mention in Europe. It was de rigueur for most of those guys like Roman who had grown up with the European sensibility.”

"My opinion is: He’s paid his price, and at the time that it happened, it was kind of unprecedented. This was not an unusual situation.”

Some of these young girls act just like seasoned whores.

It was 43 years ago! Times change, people change, so enough already folks.

Sigourney Weaver:

“I have to say, looking back, and I wasn’t really in Hollywood , but things that I would hear, it was a much different time but all I’m saying is it stands out more now than it did at the time because people were desperate to be in movies and I think it’s unimaginable now for a mother to drop off a thirteen-year-old with someone like Roman,”

“Death and the Maiden” was probably a therapeutic experience for the filmmaker. “The story we were telling was a very personal story. He had been the accused, he had been the victim in Poland and he been the absolutely helpless husband. So, I felt that a lot of what his feelings about this issue were going right into this film, [‘Death and the Maiden’],” she said.

Weaver continued, “He’s changed his life. He’s doing this film about the Dreyfus affair, a very important story to tell. Apparently he’s getting some push back about that. It’s tricky but I learned a lot from Roman…"

The ‘Alien’ actress was asked if she’d work with the controversial filmmaker in the future. “Yes, I think I would. To be quite honest I think I would. He’s now happily married; he has two children. I’m sure that he and the children have had some interesting conversations about it. He pled guilty. Does he regret it? I’m sure he does,” she says.

" So when Roman’s victim asks us all to move on with understanding and compassion, I choose to listen to her.”

R14 Amen, People support or forgave the Manson killers, but can't get over RP having sex with a willing precocious teenage.

R3 I'm not shaming Roman Polanski or the celebrities who defended/defends him.

Madonna

" if I'm president: Howard Stern would be kicked out of the country, and Roman Polanski welcomed back in."

R15 I respect her honesty. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

Fucking Andy Warhol.

"As I looked around at how young the girls were, all I could think about Roman Polanski, how the poor guy could make a mistake because these young girls could be as young or as old as they wanted to look."

In a room full of exploited kids all he could do was sympathise with a sexual predator.

R20 He meant that young girls could act and look older than their real age.

Samantha Geimer said that she acted like 21 YO when she met Roman for photo sessions. She talked about having sex since she was 8 YO, how she seduced her boyfriend, how she and her family took Quaalude (she even testified to that in court).

R18, she clearly doesn't agree with that quote anymore, she showed up on Stern's show a few years ago.

Sigourney Weaver is desperate for work. The rest of them are edgy artiste wannabes. I would expect to dismiss what he did.

Quentin Tarantino:

“I don’t believe it’s rape, not at 13, not for these 13-year-old party girls,” said Tarantino. “He had sex with a minor, that’s not rape. To me when you use the word rape you are talking about violent, throwing down, it’s one of the most violent crimes in the world. Throwing the word rape around is like throwing the world racist around. It doesn’t apply to everything.”

“She was trying to take care of her mom who is pissed off at her,” said Tarantino. “Her mom is now on her, now she has to say he did this, he did that. Now that she’s an adult she has a whole different story.”

Of course, Quentin recently joined the bandwagon and apologized for his statement fearing Twitter backlash.

I think what pisses geimer off is that people use her story for their own personal gain and discuss or write about her as if she’s damaged goods and her life was ruined by what happened. She’s acknowledged that she was failed by everyone but has made some sort of peace with the past but is sick of people speaking for her.

R25 Yeah. This is a controversial thing to say but not everyone is "permanently ruined " by an act of sex abuse. If that's how she feels, than she's entitled to express it. Just as others who were victimized are entitled to disagree. Sometimes I think we've gone from one crazy extreme to another in how we discuss this subject . In the 70s ,stuff like this was frequently shrugged off as no biggie but now people act like there is no possibility of recovery ever.

r24 I am now 100% sure QT has sex with teens.

R25 She's an attention seeker and liar. She is the One who keeps talking about it Everywhere on Twitter, Youtube, blogs, Interviews. She wrote a whole book and the damn thing. Then complaining of people bringing it up.

When people talk about Roman and other women, she always jumps in and diverts the talk to her and asks people to stop talking about her Even though they don't.

R27 99% of Hollywood had sex with teens.

I mean it's an open secret. But people just love to make RP as the only one who had done something like that with teens.

[quote] but is sick of people speaking for her.

You mean, like you're doing right now?

Samantha search for any Roman Polanski mentions on Twitter, and search for his youtube videos.

Roman's defenders are all disgusting.

I won't support any of them with a single cent.

R31 I’m not speaking for her dear just repeating what she’s said over the years.

Why shouldn’t she speak about it she’s the other party in the case . It’s not like she’s been talking about it non stop since 1977.

A lot of his defenders say it wasn't "rape-rape" because it was "consensual" and he was only convicted because his victim was underage.

That's not true.

Samantha Geimer (nee Gailey) testified that she told him to "keep away" after he started to touch her, and that she didn't resist him more forcefully out of fear.

She knew!

times change. Morals change. What was ok to say in 1977 might be considered obnoxious today.

Roman received a standing ovation at Allan Carr's "Rolodex" party:

[quote] On Saturday night, Allan noticed a sudden change in the room’s temperature, and looking around, he saw the Rosemary’s Baby director—all sixty-five inches of him—in the doorway. Even though he was already standing, Allan motioned for everyone else to rise, and he led an ovation for the much-maligned Polanski, who’d been accused of the statutory rape of Samantha Geimer, a thirteen-year-old from Woodland Hills, on March 10. Polanski was now free on his own recognizance, having paid a $2,500 bail, and he tried to keep a low profile—until the Rolodex Party—and the photographers at Seahaven went wild. With the trial going on, Polanski’s appearance on the second night of Allan’s party propelled it from a must-attend event to one for the record books, giving the Malibu event the softest brush of scandal. With his standing ovation for Polanski, Allan let Hollywood’s most recently indicted rapist know that he was a welcome guest, and the gesture moved Polanski to tears, even though not everyone approved. “Only in Hollywood,” complained Alana Hamilton.

[quote] Partygoers John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Michael Eisner (but not Barry Diller, with whom Allan was already feuding), ABC’s Gary Pudney, William Morris’s Stan Kamen, Roger Vadim, Lee Grant, Michele Lee, Johnny Carson and his producer Fred De Cordova, and Steven Spielberg obeyed Allan’s weekend dictate, with the A through L’s arriving on Friday night and the M through Z’s waiting until Saturday.

[quote] A notable exception was Anjelica Huston, who broke the alphabet rule by attending the second night and regretting her decision the minute Roman Polanski, her major courtroom nemesis, stepped through the front door of Seahaven

R35 Samantha was lying, she was embarrassed to testify in court that the sex was consensual and that she didn't resist him. Also, Samantha admitted that Roman's account of the events in his book was Not wrong (as people claim) except for portraying her family lifestyle as low class.

Here's what she said in 2018:

Do you believe it was premeditated?

No. I’m sure that there were plenty of teenage girls happy to have sex with him. I was trying to act like I was 21. ‘Sure give me a pill’ (the Quaalude – JOT). He decided, ‘She looks willing. Let me test that out’.

Polanski gave a version of events in his memoir published in 1984. How did you react to that?

It’s just unkind. It wasn’t wrong or inaccurate so much as that he portrayed my family like we were low class. I didn’t want to have sex with him – he may not have remembered that, but it’s the truth. But it was more the way he talked about my Mom and my stepfather and where we lived.

He also doesn’t mention in it that you told him ‘no’.

I said, ‘No’. But it came out more like (weakly), then it was like, ‘I guess we’re having sex. I wasn’t resisting. I’m sure he thought I was probably 90 percent cool with it.