“Look, in my life I pride myself on taking responsibility for things that I have done,” Franco told Colbert. “I have to do that to maintain my well being. The things that I heard that were on Twitter are not accurate. But I completely support people coming out and being able to have a voice because they didn’t have a voice for so long. So I don’t want to shut them down in any way.”
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Despite the allegations, People previously confirmed that Franco will still attend the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, where he is nominated for Best Actor.
In her speech, Johansson also addressed her past history of “being taken advantage of” by men.
Sharing the range of emotions she has experienced over the past few months, the actress said, “Suddenly, I was 19 again, and I started to remember all the men I’d known that had taken advantage of the fact that I was a young women who didn’t yet have the tools to say no, or understand the value of my own self worth.”
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“I’ve had many relationships, both personal and professional, where the power dynamic was so off that I had to create a narrative in which I was the cool girl who could hang in and hangout, and that sometimes meant compromising what felt right for me, and that seemed okay,” she continued. “Compromising my voice, and therefore allowing myself to be unseen, and degraded, whether it was intended by the other party or not, because it allowed me to have the approval that women are conditioned to need.”
To donate to the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, which will provide subsidized legal support to women and men in all industries who have experienced sexual harassment, assault, or abuse in the workplace, visit its GoFundMe page. Learn more about Time’s Up, an organization of women in entertainment combating sexual harassment and inequality, on its website.
Concluding, Johansson said, “I want to move forward, and for me, moving forward means my daughter growing up in a world where she doesn’t have to be a victim of what has cruelly become the social norm. That she doesn’t have to fit into the bindings of the female condition. Time’s Up on the female condition. Gender equality can’t just exist outside ourselves. It must exist within.”