He wants to defend his own honor but doesn't want to be seen as a bad guy and/or non-feminist.


Woody has accepted that some people will forever think he is a rapist.

nate wants to convince people he is not a rapist, but doesn't want to go in to hard on a dead accuser and play the sensitive feminist role.





>(Well, Mistake #1 was obviously raping that girl with his
>friend. That's the only mistake that really matters here. Or
>running a non-rape train, if you go with that story.)
>
>Put out one press release. Something like, "In the past, I did
>things I'm not proud of, but I was exonerated from the
>accusations. I believe that decision was just. Hence forth,
>I'd like to put the focus on my film, which I believe tells a
>very important story blah blah blah."
>
>Then, just like Woody does every time a movie comes out, every
>time someone even *tries* to bring it up, someone asks you an
>unsavory question, some protester screams at you, you don't
>respond. Or if you do, you say, "I addressed this issue in my
>press release on date X, I'll refer you to that. I'm here to
>discuss the movie." And you'll have to say it over. And over.
>And over. And over. And over.
>
>But eventually, just like with Woody, 99% of the media will
>give up. They don't ask Sean Penn about Madonna or Josh Brolin
>about his wife or Morgan Freeman about his granddaughter or
>literally any other celebrity who has some awful unsavory shit
>off-screen, alleged or proven. Why? Because those guys simply
>Will. Not. Talk. About It. And if you give them nothing new,
>then they have nothing new to say, and those units stop
>moving, so the question stops getting asked.
>
>So you're saying, "Why should he apologize?" when that's not
>the question you should be asking. The question you should be
>asking is "Why is he far enough into an interview on this
>conversation that he even has that question presented to him,
>and why in the fuck would he answer it?"


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