A new documentary, “Sorry/Not Sorry,” talks to the women who accused Louis C.K. of sexual misconduct six years ago. The comedian has since made a comeback.
. She’s considered the first woman in the comedy world to talk publicly about C.K.'s behavior, but when the Times approached her in 2017, she says in the film, she didn’t feel like what she’d experienced measured up, or that she wanted to dredge it up again. He hadn’t masturbated in front ofFor a long time, she says in the film, she considered C.K.
Privately, she said, C.K. called her and they had a rational conversation about how to handle it. She agreed with him that it would be best not to talk about it more, and deleted the podcast. For years, she did fewer interviews for her comedy work than she wanted to, because the media would talk to her only if she talked about C.K. At one point, she said publicly thatOther powerful interviews include comedian and writer Megan Koester, who spoke about how the comedy world protected C.K. Sheabout how she went on the red carpet for the 2015 Just For Laughs festival in Montreal — the biggest in comedy — and asked A-listers to comment on the C.K.
Notably absent from the film, though, are several women prominent in the article, including comedy duo Dana Min Goodman and Julia Wolov, who told the Times that C.K. got naked and masturbated in front of them after inviting them to his hotel room during the Aspen Comedy Festival. As Suh explains, the women expressed just wanting to get on with their work, for C.K.’s misconduct not to be the only thing they’re known for.
“We’re looking back at the #MeToo movement now in the rearview mirror and everyone’s always asking, ‘Are things better? Are things worse?'” said producer Kathleen Lingo, who works for the Times. “It’s really hard to have a blanket assessment, but just the fact that the women who felt a sense of promise at that moment now don’t feel it anymore — I think is quite stark.”
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