NOTE: This article is an old one that was originally published in early September of 2022. However, as Hollywood has only gotten worse since then and actors are having similar freakouts this time around, with his second administration, we have kept this article around because it shows the ridiculous mindset of some actors and actresses so well, and the story is quite funny.
The Hollywood crowd likes to pretend that it’s composed of America’s social elite, and, thus, that we all ought to listen to them and their prattling political takes, most of which are jaw-droppingly absurd. Well, as if anyone still needed that mask to be thrown off completely, now it has been thanks to actress Andie MacDowell.
Mitchell, speaking during a late-summer of 2022 interview, told an utterly ridiculous tale of when she had a total meltdown on the set, a meltdown induced by nothing more than Trump being in office for the first time and her seeing a bunch of men standing around.
That’s how she described the incident when speaking to Marie Claire for the absurd interview, saying: “I was always really good at not letting it affect me. I let things roll off. Sometimes I watch bad behavior and feel sorry for the person who’s behaving poorly, because they have to be suffering on some level to behave like that. MeToo has been interesting—you do see the difference on set. There are a lot more women.”
Continuing, she explained how Trump was involved in her freakout and said, “I had this kind of crazy experience, right after Trump got elected. I was really disturbed that nobody seemed to care about the vagina[-grabbing] comment; I had gotten really sad. I went to do a job, a day’s work, and I had my very first panic attack. I was getting ready to shoot something, and I turn around and it’s, like, a roomful of men. Like, a sea of men.”
She then went on to defend that freak out over seeing men, pretending it was something other than absolutely absurd and saying, “It flashed on something that was personal for me. And I dropped to my knees. I left the room, and went into this fake bathroom on the set, and looked at myself in the mirror and said, ‘Get your shit together.’ It just freaked me out, not seeing any other women.”
Concluding, she said that she doesn’t have any problem with men, but that she would have found “comfort” had she seen other women. In her words: “It’s not that I have anything against men. I don’t! I just don’t like big groups of them. Since then, I’ve become very conscious of looking around and finding the women on set. For comfort.”
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Of course, were an actor like Chris Pratt to say that he finds being around women on the set worthy of a panic attack or freak out, he would be at least lampooned and likely face cancellation for it. But Mitchell was treated as totally normal in her meltdown about seeing men because they reminded her of Trump.