Problems in film industry are much bigger than Harvey Weinstein, director says

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The problem of sexual harassment and abuse in the film industry is bigger than “the ‘bad men’ and their bad behaviour,” the director of a new film about a predatory Hollywood executive has said.

Kitty Green’s film The Assistant follows a day in the life of junior assistant to a movie mogul similar to convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein, and Green said the abusive behaviour demonstrated still exists at film production companies and in offices around the world.

Green told the PA news agency: “A lot of the coverage was about the ‘bad men’ and their bad behaviour and this idea that, ‘well if we get rid of these (men, it would all be over).