Richard Dreyfuss: #MeToo accusations were heard as verdicts

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Hollywood star Richard Dreyfuss has the #MeToo movement kicked due process “into the ocean”. In 2017, the actor denied claims by a TV writer that he exposed himself to her in the ’80s.

Asked whether he welcomes the #MeToo movement, the 72-year-old Jaws star told the Guardian: “Not at the cost of the loss of due process. “Unfortunately, it became immediately equating an accusation being heard as a verdict. “Women have been abused by men for millennia, but it’s not something that’s going to be solved by committing an equal or worse crime, which is kicking process into the ocean.” He said he “was a bad guy for a number of years” but “everything I ever did I thought was consensual”.