Kit Hartington has apologised for complaining about sexism toward men in Hollywood, admtting he was wrong.
Back in 2016, before the now notorious Harvey Weinstein scandal hit, the Gunpowder star moaned about a ‘double standard’ in which men were called out for sexism towards women but the same couldn’t be said when men were objectified by the opposite sex.
‘I think there is a double standard. If you said to a girl, “Do you like being called a babe?” and she said, “No, not really, ” she’d be absolutely right,’ Kit pondered in an interview he 2016.
‘I like to think of myself as more than a head of hair or a set of looks. It’s demeaning.
‘Yes, in some ways you could argue I’ve been employed for a look I have. But there’s a sexism that happens towards men. There’s definitely a sexism in our industry that happens towards women, and there is towards men as well.
‘At some points during photoshoots when I’m asked to strip down, I felt that. If I felt I was being employed just for my looks, I’d stop acting,’ he added to the Sunday Times.
But Kit has now back-pedaled on these comments, holding his hands up and admitting he was ‘wrong’ to make such claims.
Instead, the Game Of Thrones star says what he was trying to condemn was men being objectified over their looks.
‘I was wrong there. Sexism against men is not something I should have really said. I think what I meant was, being objectified,’ he reflected to The Guardian.
Kit, who is engaged to his former GOT co-star Rose Leslie, went on: ‘At the time, I did feel objectified, and now I’ve learned to control that.
‘I do feel I have been objectified in the past, sexually as well, in pieces that have been written about me. Has that made me feel uncomfortable in the past? Yes. Do I think my position is the same as a woman’s in society? No.
‘They’re very different things, and I should have separated them. I was wrong.’
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