Andy Dick has been fire from the movie Raising Buchanan following multiple accusations of sexual harassment and misconduct toward the women on set.
Dick’s inappropriate behavior has included groping people’s sexual organs, unwanted kissing/licking and sexual propositions of at least 4 people working on the film.
The comedian has denied the groping claims, but gave a series of flippant remarks implying that actors, actresses and crew are simply being too “delicate” in their complaints.
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To anyone who has followed Dick’s legal troubles, his well-documented history of outlandish comedy and often intentionally offensive behavior, his dismissal may not come as a surprise.
But the claims can be seen as more unsettling in today’s cultural climate in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal. (Or ousted figures like Bill O’Reilly, Amazon Studios’ Roy Price, political journalist Mark Halperin, The Loud House creator Chris Savino, and the list of accused sexual harassers goes on and now includes Kevin Spacey and director James Toback.)
Dick said he’s aware of his reputation. At first, he made light of the situation, joking that “my middle name is ‘misconduct.’ They know what they signed up for.”
However, he followed up with a denial that he ever groped anyone on set.
“I don’t grope people anymore. I don’t expose myself anymore,” he said by telephone. (Also well-documented is his history of exposing his genitals in public and on stage.) “I do understand that the temperature in the world right now is delicate.”
He claimed that the temperature on set in Arizona was delicate, too, and that he contributed to that by bringing up Weinstein. “Can I tell you my side of it,” Dick then asked before asserting that the filmmakers could’ve been upset that he was talking about or perhaps defending Weinstein, with whom he made two films.
“They were so incensed by what I was saying. People are so sensitive,” he said, without elaborating on exactly what he said.
Bye, bye, Dick.
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