Holly Wainwright

I think it will definitely have dented his possibilities of becoming a big name.

Because as Marina Hyde says in that story in The Guardian, she wrote a column about this saying that the overarching lesson of this whole thing is never, ever go to court.

Never, ever, ever.

And they didn't actually end up in court, but still.

is that for the rest of time, their names are now linked.

Every interview, every profile, every project they do, this will always be part of the story in a way that it wouldn't if it hadn't entered the courts.

But when I say, I think, go away free, I don't mean disappear, like I don't mean silencing women.

I mean, work on projects, work on producer projects, hustle behind the scenes, do all your Hollywood-y stuff until you can come back to address this with more nuance.

Look at Lena Dunham, we've been talking about that a lot lately.

Famously one of the most hated women on the internet for a period of time.

Couldn't put a foot right.

Couldn't do anything right.

Opened her mouth, everybody jumped on her.

We know how the culture treats women who speak out about all kinds of things.

There are local examples of this too.

In a way, you've got to like let the air out of it and then come back when there's some nuance and distance.

The sad thing about this argument of never take it to court is, of course, that women putting up with sexual harassment at work

are just always discouraged from ever going anywhere with it, because you're going to get your character smeared.

And it might be on the scale of a Blake Lively, or it might be just the local gossip at the football club, like whatever it is.

And it's like we've seen this play out in massive letters across the sky that watch out, women.