'I realize my opinions about Kathy, based on my own independent research, may differ from others involved with the film.' oliviawilde took to Twitter to clarify her stance on the controversy that has surrounded her journalist character in RichardJewell
that first broke the news that Jewell was a suspect in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing on July 27, 1996.
The journalist— portrayed as loud, brash and hunting for "something crimey going on anywhere"— offers to sleep with FBI agent Tom Shaw in exchange for information about the investigation. Shaw provides Jewell's name to Scruggs, then she asks if the two should get a hotel room or go back to her car. While they are never actually seen doing so, it is implied that they sleep together.
"I was asked to play the supporting role of Kathy Scruggs, who was, by all accounts, bold, smart, and fearlessly undeterred by the challenge of being a female reporter in the south in the 1990s. I cannot even contemplate the amount of sexism she may have faced in the way of duty," "Contrary to a swath of recent headlines, I do not believe that Kathy 'traded sex for tips.' Nothing in my research suggested she did so, and it was never my intention to suggest she had.
Wilde shared her personal reading of the relationship between Scruggs and Shaw that is seen in the film, writing, "The perspective of the fictional dramatization of the story, as I understood it, was that Kathy, and the FBI agent who leaked false information to her, were in a pre-existing romantic relationship, not a transactional exchange of sex for information."
Wilde also took the time to clarify previous comments she made about the Scruggs' portrayal in the film, which included a comment to
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