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Whoa. This is actually kind of incredible. So, Kim Novak, the aging star of the silver screen best known for her role in Vertigo, recently claimed that she felt “raped” when she watched The Artist because of it’s use of the score from Vertigo. OK, sure. I mean, that’s a very incendiary and intense thing to say about the musical score in a relatively light-hearted silent movie, so she probably didn’t really mean that she felt RAPED exactly, because uh RAPED ?! but like maybe she just didn’t like The Artist and hearing that familiar music seemed to intrude upon and trample her memories of better times. Right? She didn’t actually mean “raped” right? Oh, she did? She meant that it reminded her of THE TIME SHE WAS ACTUALLY RAPED FOR REAL?! Guhhhhh. From the HuffingtonPost:
The 79-year-old “Vertigo” actress, who will be honored next month at the TCM Classic Film Festival, said during a phone interview Monday that hearing the score from the Alfred Hitchcock film used in the recent Oscar-winning homage to the silent-film era reminded her of the same feelings she experienced when she was raped as a child.
“It was very painful,” said Novak. “When I said it was like a rape, that was how it felt to me. I had experienced in my youth being raped, and so I identified with a real act that had been done to me. I didn’t use that word lightly. I had been raped as a child. It was a rape I never told about, so when I experienced this one, I felt the need to express it.”
Holy moly. Look, Kim Novak’s horrible experience is her own, and however she wants to process it is not for me to criticize it, so if she says that watching The Artist brought back the exact same emotional and physical responses that she had to an actual sexual assault, I guess we have to believe her, but that is a REALLY SURPRISING clarification on what had at first seemed to be a simple case of exaggeration! So there you go. Obviously, our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of The Artist‘s musical score and their families during this difficult time.
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This makes sense. I had asked The Artist the other day if it wanted to go to a Hitchcock retrospective with me, but it just looked down at its feet and mumbled something about “50 yards.”
“Make the best of it, Kim.” -Rick Santorum
Good thing she doesn’t need birth control at her age. I’m NOT paying!
The good news is when she sees I Spit on Your Grave it will only remind her of a time she had vertigo
I do not feel that this is an appropriate related link.
I do !
Just Zayin…
I guess I’m not understanding why she felt so violated….did she write the score to Vertigo? Did The Artist use it without permission?? How could she feel upset about anything after seeing Uggie’s face???
“i did not consent to the movie penetrating my soul and taking me back to a golden age…”
So just last night I was on a flight from the West Coast, and I looked up to discover The Artist was the feature movie!
And I didn’t have headphones!
And I realized, it didn’t matter because it is supposed to be a SILENT FILM!
So I completely missed hearing the score and feeling raped???!!!!
the Artist only borrowed part of the film’s score, imagine how
actual rape victimsStar Wars fans must feel about the prequels.spoiler alert: The Artist was just an elaborate ruse orchestrated in order to prey on the psychological pain of an unsuspecting viewer in order to get away with killing the competition and win All The Awards.
I’m thinking Kim Novak is like that friend of yours who always wants to tell you stuff, but someone needs to find a way to fold it into the conversation. Like she can’t just tell you she was raped as a young woman, because it would be a bit too out of the blue. So she waits until you start talking about the Artist and says “oh yeah, the Artist, it kinda reminded of that time I was raped”.
Whatever Kim Novak has been through in her life doesn’t excuse that ad. It’s terrible that she went through that, and that something as innocuous as The Artist brought back whatever she was feeling at the time, but her comments and the FULL PAGE AD she took out in Variety trivialized rape, plain and simple. And there’s enough of that happening in the world already without her help.
I don’t really pay any attention to what actresses older than Willow Smith have to say.
Completely unrelated, but… 79? Still looks younger than Lindsay.
Vertigo is overrated. There, I said it.
Am I the only one reading between the lines to realize that she was raped by Alfred Hitchcock?