Newspaper Demands Correction About Olivia Wilde's New Role
by EG
Clint Eastwood's new movie about the Atlanta Olympics bombing, Richard Jewell, suggests that Olivia Wilde's journalist character traded sex for information. That's a sexist cliche and not at all what really happened, according to the people involved. Read on for details.
Via Page Six.
An Atlanta newspaper has demanded that the studio behind Clint Eastwood‘s new movie “Richard Jewell” issue a statement saying they used dramatic license when portraying a reporter sleeping with a source to break a story, a report said Monday.
The newspaper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, told Variety that the allegation that former reporter Kathy Scruggs bedded an FBI agent to learn that a security guard was under investigation for the Centennial Olympic Park bombing is baseless.
“We hereby demand that you immediately issue a statement publicly acknowledging that some events were imagined for dramatic purposes and artistic license and dramatization were used in the film’s portrayal of events and characters,” the newspaper wrote to Warner Bros., Eastwood and writer Billy Ray.
“We further demand that you add a prominent disclaimer to the film to that effect,” they added, according to Variety.
The movie tells the story of how security guard Richard Jewell was thrust into the spotlight after the Journal-Constitution reported he was under investigation for the 1996 bombing that killed one and wounded more than 100 others.
Scruggs, who is portrayed by Olivia Wilde in the film, broke the story that the FBI was investigating Jewell in connection with the blast.
The movie shows Wilde sleeping with an FBI agent — portrayed by Jon Hamm — to get the scoop.
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