Roman Polanski says #MeToo movement is ‘mass hysteria’

Film director and convicted child rapist threatens to sue Movie Academy over ‘illegal’ expulsion

Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski won an Oscar for The Pianist in 2003
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French-Polish film director Roman Polanski dismissed the #MeToo movement as “mass hysteria” in an interview shortly before he was expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, it has emerged.

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