Björk recently told her followers on Facebook about her experience of sexual harassment in the film industry. She did not name the filmmaker, claiming that, after confronting him, “he had a more fair and meaningful relationship with his actresses after [her] confrontation so there is hope.”
Fans and activists on the internet had been sharing Björk’s story, as it is known by some. Her post responded.
“I am inspired by the women everywhere who are speaking up online to tell about my experience with a danish director.”
She goes on to discuss the nature of the harassment.
“It was extremely clear to me when i walked into the actresses profession that my humiliation and role as a lesser sexually harassed being was the norm and set in stone with the director and a staff of dozens who enabled it and encouraged it. … when i turned the director down repeatedly he sulked and punished me and created for his team an impressive net of illusion where i was framed as the difficult one.”
Given the recent realizations about Harvey Weinstein’s pattern of sexual abuse over the years, many others are being penalized for past offenses as victims feel emboldened to speak up. The film and fashion industries have been criticized at large for their reluctance to acknowledge what many argue was a loosely kept secret. Many actors and prominent members of each industry are being implicated with prior knowledge without action. Björk’s statement was in support of actresses all over the world.
“Let’s hope this statement supports the actresses and actors all over. let’s stop this. there is a wave of change in the world.”
Björk has only worked as an actress a number of times. She’s appears in Lars Von Trier’s 2000 film, Dancer in the Dark, and films by films by Robert Altman, Nietzchka Keene and Kristín Jóhannesdóttir.
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