“Having the courage to call out sexism in real time is no small thing, and doing it while the cameras are rolling is even cooler,” writes Emma Specter of Hannah Waddingham’s response to a photographer’s demands at the Olivier Awards.
The world of red-carpet photography hasn’t always been the most politically correct. I’ve worked enough press junkets to know that photographers will regularly yell out comments to posing – or internally cringing – famous people that actively cross the line into sexist, invasive, or, well, just kind of gross.
“Show me leg,” the photographer apparently demanded of Waddingham, to which she had the perfect reply: “Oh my God, you’d never say that to a man…. Don’t be a dick, otherwise I’ll move off. Don’t say ‘show me leg.’ No.
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