Since nude photos of dozens of celebrities, including Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton, were stolen from Apple’s cloud and leaked onto the internet, several actors have weighed in on the incident. The latest lambasting of those responsible for the leak comes courtesy of actor Andrew Garfield, who shared his feelings on the scandal with The Daily Beast. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 actor called the hacks “disgusting” and “misogynistic,” deploring the man who is blowing up the photos and displaying them in an art gallery in Florida.
Here’s what Garfield had to say:
It’s disgusting. “I have a right to your naked body or images that you’ve sent to your husband, or lover.” It’s disgusting. It’s this violent, abusive violation of womanhood—of divine womanhood. It’s violent, and it’s misogynistic, and it’s revolting, and it’s another example of what this distance has enabled us to do—it’s enabled us to be disassociated from each other. There’s enough awful shit coming from it that hopefully we’ll get to the point of, “OK, wait a second.” What’s scary is that we haven’t reached that point yet, and there hasn’t been a referendum put on it. The Internet is the new Wild West. There’s a guy now taking these pictures and putting them up in an art gallery. What f***ing right does he have to do that? It’s absolutely revolting.
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