Rose McGowan has expressed regret for her attack on Natalie Portman over the latter’s Oscar dress “protest”, which took aim at the exclusion of women from the best director Academy Award nominations.
This followed widespread coverage of the dress Portman wore to the 2020 Oscars ceremony, which was embroidered with the names of female film-makers who had not been nominated for that year’s best director award.
In a post on Twitter, McGowan did not directly apologise to or name Portman, but wrote: “My critique should’ve been about Hollywood’s ongoing culture of silence.
I realise that by critiquing someone personally, I lost sight of the bigger picture.”