Nicola Sturgeon accuses actor of misogyny after he calls her ‘a witch'
'I think we've completely lost the way—both sides of the Border, by the way,' he said. 'We've got what I dreamt was going to happen and it looks to me like a mess.
'I once loved Nicola Sturgeon. Now I cannot bear her.'
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The actor and writer, who first shot to fame in the 1980s in Another Country and later appeared in My Best Friend's Wedding and The Happy Prince, also said he no longer votes and sees little hope in the current political class.
'They are all useless. Useless people. Useless ideas. And everything going so badly I do not see who is going to pull us out of the hole we have dug for ourselves.'
(Image: TINO ROMANO/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) During the interview, he also reflected on his time at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow.
'It was a European theatre in the same vein as Peter Stein, Pina Bausch. It was a national European theatre. And unlike those theatres, it never ran at a loss. It presented an uncompromising array of work to people that it never patronised.'
He added: 'As soon as the witch Sturgeon came into power, everything changed in Scottish arts and everything had to be about being Scottish.'
Sharing a screenshot of the article on Instagram, Ms Sturgeon wrote: 'What is it with (some) men who cannot disagree with a woman without resorting to deeply misogynistic tropes? (Btw—his substantive point is baseless rubbish too.)'
(Image: Instagram) A recent Holyrood magazine survey found that female MSPs of all parties faced rape threats, death threats and severe misogynistic abuse.
One female MSP recently told The Guardian that Holyrood is becoming a hostile environment for women.
In 2022, Ms Sturgeon apologised for Scotland's witch trials, calling the persecutions 'injustice on a colossal scale, driven at least in part by misogyny'.
She warned that the misogyny behind those events 'has not' gone away—today it 'expresses itself not in claims of witchcraft, but in everyday harassment, online rape threats and sexual violence'.
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