“This is not American,” Langella said of being fired by Netflix after he was accused of misconduct on 'The Fall of the House of Usher.'
’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” last month. Netflix made the move after investigating allegations of misconduct that included sexual harassment of a co-star.in which he said he was unjustly “canceled,” Langella wrote of a romantic scene that appeared to be at the center of the accusations.On March 25 of this year, I was performing a love scene with the actress playing my young wife. Both of us were fully clothed. I was sitting on a couch, she was standing in front of me.
In a conversation with human resources a week later, the Oscar-nominated, Tony-winning “Frost/Nixon” star admitted to objecting to the intimacy coordinator’s suggestion of where to place his hands, he wrote. “It was a love scene on camera. Legislating the placement of hands, to my mind, is ludicrous. It undermines instinct and spontaneity,” he explained.Langella recalled that the HR rep asked him not to contact the co-star, the coordinator or any other employee. When he tried to explain he had no ill intentions, the interviewer cut him off and said, “Intention is not our concern. Netflix deals only with impact,” according to the 84-year-old performer.
Langella was playing the mad father Roderick Usher in the miniseries adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe work, and the project was nearly done. But
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