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Gabriel Byrne on Liam Neeson's comments that #MeToo movement is a "witchhunt" that has gone too far: "I love Liam, I've been a friend of his for many, many years... but I would say the movement hasn't gone far enough." #LateLateShow
Gabriel Byrne: "And I think the pendulum has been so far in the opposite direction for so long, where you've had centuries and centuries of women silenced, discriminated...
"When they say 'witchhunt', I don't like that word, because witchhunt was about women being burned alive, because they were in some way rumoured to be going against the system."
Gabriel Byrne: "I think people who say [#MeToo] has gone too far, I think it's a way of trying to stop it, trying to keep it contained... I think what has to happen is the women's movement needs to be resurgent. What we're talking about in the end is human rights." #LateLateShow
Gabriel Byrne: "We're talking about 50% of the population of the world, and we're talking about sisters, wives, mothers, daughters. That's who we're talking about. It's not an abstract gender thing that is, you know, a cause celebre du jour." #LateLateShow
For context to Ryan Tubridy's quoting of Liam Neeson on the #MeToo movement, I wrote this a couple of weeks ago. #LateLateShow avondhupress.ie/liam-neeson-se…
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