![]() ![]() “I went to Ari Emmanuel, the head of the agency,” says Crews, “and I printed out a letter that he wrote when he wanted Mel Gibson blacklisted from Hollywood for antisemitic remarks. (Crews claims he reported the incident at the time to his agents but William Morris disputes that he reported the incident to it immediately.) Photograph: FOX via Getty ImagesĮven though the Weinstein exposé saw the end of numerous high-profile male entertainment industry careers, behind and in front of the camera, William Morris Endeavor allegedly took a different stance. I didn’t know Adam Venit but here he was, the head of the motion picture department of my agency.”Ĭrews with Andre Braugher in Brooklyn Nine-Nine. I wanted to knock him out I was so angry. “I was yelling at this guy and pushing him away. “My wife was there when I was molested,” he recalls. By the end of the year, Time magazine named the burgeoning #metoo moment its collective person of the year, and Terry Crews its most prominent male voice. ![]() I’m just going to say what happened to me and let everybody else be the judge.”Ī month later, interviewed on Good Morning America, Crews identified his alleged assailant as Adam Venit, the head of the motion picture department at William Morris Endeavor. I’m reading all these guys calling these women all these names and I was like: ‘I can’t let this happen.’ I would have been the biggest farce ever. “I saw my social media and men specifically were calling these women gold diggers and opportunists who just wanted a pay day. But on 10 October last year, five days after the New York Times’s first exposé on Harvey Weinstein, Crews sent a chain of tweets detailing his experience of what he says was sexual harassment at the hands of a then-unnamed Hollywood agent, whom he accused of grabbing his crotch at a party hosted by Adam Sandler. These are not the credits of a controversial figure. “I’ve done movies where I got beat up by guys who could never touch me.”Īs well as being a regular on sitcoms such as Everybody Hates Chris, Arrested Development and Are We There Yet?, he’s perhaps best known for his five seasons as hulking-but-weepy desk sergeant Terry Jeffords on Brooklyn Nine-Nine. “I’ve done a lot of movies to make the white superstar look good,” comments Crews, 49. Crews has also utilised his linebacker physique in more visceral projects, including playing one of the sprightlier members of Sylvester Stallone’s OAP action ensemble The Expendables. He has used his imposing physicality for comedic effect in films such as the agreeably dumb White Chicks, Friday After Next, Get Smart and Mike Judge’s prescient Idiocracy, where he played the reality-star head of state President Camacho. The former NFL player – who transitioned into acting in 1997 – is the embodiment of the well-worn term “gentle giant”. A year ago, the notion that the name Terry Crews would inspire anything but universal positivity would have seemed surreal.
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