Samantha Geimer, who was raped by Roman Polanski aged 13, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay

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Society & Culture, Politics, News, Science, News Commentary

4.6 • 917 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Samantha Geimer, who was raped by Roman Polanski when she was 13, talks to Jonathan Kay about why she has refused to be cast as a victim and how she's dealt with the controversy her stance has generated, particularly in the #MeToo era. She is steeling herself for another bout of unwanted attention when Polanski's new film—An Officer and a Spy—is released next month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Colette Podcast. My name is Claire Lehman and I am editor and chief of Colette.
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0:15.3	Our podcast is a team effort and is jointly hosted by myself,
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0:33.0	Welcome to the Quilat Podcast.
0:35.0	I'm Jonathan Kay.
0:37.0	When you compare the French Polish film director Roman Polanski
0:40.0	to some of the younger men who have had their careers cut short in the Me Too era,
0:45.0	one might think that Polanski would be the most radioactive of them all.
0:49.0	Al Franken, to take one example, resigned from the US Senate after being accused of inappropriately touching and kissing women.
0:57.0	Comedian Louis C.K. came under attack when it was revealed that he masturbated in front of women backstage.
1:04.0	Author Juno Diaz resigned as chair of the Pulitzer Prize board
1:08.2	after a woman claimed he forcibly kissed her.
1:11.1	Polanski, by contrast, pled guilty to a much worse sin. In 1978, he raped a 13-year-old
1:18.3	girl, and to this day he remains a fugitive from U.S. justice. Yet this month, his new film, an officer and a spy,
1:26.0	was awarded the grand jury prize and a standing ovation
1:30.0	at the Venice Film Festival.
1:32.0	The survival of Polanski's career owes much to Europe's
1:36.2	more liberal attitude to male sexual misbehavior, but it also seems connected to a complicating
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