Molly s Game very relevant movie

Los Angeles Dec 26 (IANS) "Molly s Game" which is on female empowerment is a very relevant movie given the recent wave of sexual misconduct claims says its executive producer Leopoldo Gout.

In "Molly s Game" actress Jessica Chastain plays Molly Bloom a tough Olympic-class skier who ran an ultra-exclusive high-stakes poker game in Los Angeles and New York where the players were almost entirely men.

While the sleekly-dressed Bloom gets a few compliments from the men at her table including a drunken profession of love she doesn t experience anything close to the sexual harassment or assault allegations that have dominated the headlines in recent weeks.

Still Bloom s story is a timely tale of female empowerment reports hollywoodreporter.com.

"In this moment in time when there s kind of a call of arms for women to say Enough is enough I think it s a very relevant movie " said Gout who met Bloom while she was still running her New York game.

Bloom herself agrees that the film is timely but added that she didn t encounter that sort of inappropriate behaviour while she was running her games.

"There s definitely conversations about patriarchy there s conversations about people abusing power " Bloom said.

"I did not run into anything like these horrific (sexual misconduct) stories that we are hearing about. My role in this game was very different. I was the banker and I controlled the lists. I think when I made that transition from being a cocktail waitress in this game to running the list to bankrolling the games I think my position was just personally very different."

"My heart goes out to (the women speaking out about their experiences with sexual harassment and assault). Things are changing."

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