But the actor was keen to stress his support for the #MeToo initiative saying, “Who would not be supportive of the #MeToo movement? That’s an idea that’s even out there? That there are some people saying ‘We do not believe in equality. We think the workplace should be a dangerous place for certain people and not for others’. That’s preposterous.”

He continued to discuss how the problem is endemic in the industry and how it isn’t possible to make a distinction between different levels of abuse. “[It] isn’t about, oh well this isn’t so bad, and that’s really horrible. It’s that it’s systemic,” he said. “It is accepted culturally at it’s tamest manifestation of it and at it’s worst, and that it all needs to be turned on it’s head, eradicated, not allowed for.”

He also refuted co-host Monica Padman’s speculation that sometimes women don’t tell the truth, saying, “I wouldn’t say that it’s helpful to say that ‘well women lie’. Or to approach the argument from the point of who is lying. It actually doesn’t help.

“Are women paid 70 cents on the dollar? Are women constantly given a mountain of shit at work? Are men believed over women, and promoted over women? Are screenplays written with male leads, on and on and on? Yes, 100%. That’s really what is important and has to change, and I think is changing. Regardless of – and definitely regardless of how much I sit here and talk about it – all the talk and chatter, that shift is happening.”

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