But these men banded around me: Matt, Ben, Chris Moore, Gus Van Sant said: ‘we’re making the film with this girl.’ But that stayed with me.” “‘You are not going to be a lead actress.’ So even at 23 or 24 I was terrified of him, that he was right. “I remember him taking me aside, saying ‘I am doing you a huge favour because you need to go for parts where that is not going to be a problem’,” she said. On Weinstein, Driver told how the producer attempted to block her casting in her 1997 breakout role, Good Will Hunting, because, in his words, she wasn’t “fuckable”. “I needed to send a very clear message … to the corporate people who knew this was going on, who hush-hushed it, who were not transparent and who didn’t do anything about it.
It cut me to the very heart of what I’ve been involved with. Young girls who have been told the only thing in their life they can do is prostitution, in Cambodia in Laos in Thailand. They need retraining and help to not have to do that. “The programmes that I have been involved with are to do with women who have to work as sex workers to supplement their income. I had heard rumours about things, I had asked questions I had been assured that there was nothing going on. “It broke my heart … because here’s the thing there had been a lot of talk of this going on. “I’ve been an ambassador for 20 years,” she said. Driver was the first celebrity ambassador to step down from her role. Oxfam, which is embroiled in a scandal over the cover-up of its employees using sex workers in Haiti in 2010, has since lost 7,000 donors.
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