![]() ![]() ![]() 29), Thomson spoke with The Hollywood Reporter (his interview is edited for length and clarity) about grappling with hundreds of accusations against his friend, what Hollywood can learn from Toback’s story and why removing an accused actor from a finished film a la Kevin Spacey’s late-stage omission from the 2017 film All the Money in the World, is “hypocritical and indecent.” “Not all of the things he’s done.”ĭays before the publication of Sleeping With Strangers (out Jan. “Jim is still a very important friendship in my life, and I have admired some of the things he’s done,” says Thompson. Thomson likewise showed his friend Sleeping With Strangers‘ chapter on him Toback wasn’t a fan, but the two still talk. district attorney’s decision in April not to prosecute (mostly on statute of limitations grounds), Thomson adds, refocused the filmmaker on a memoir he’d been writing, some pages of which he sent to Thomson. “ was angry about being charged, and foul-mouthed in his denial.” But the L.A. Talking to Toback about the accusations against him was “disturbing,” Thomson writes. So Thomson added a chapter that chronicles his relationship with “Jim,” 74, and what he knew and didn’t about Toback’s treatment of women, including episodes that he’d previously written off as posturing - like “matter-of-fact orgies” that Toback reportedly participated in while writing his 1971 book about former NFLer Jim Brown, with other members of Brown’s crew and women acting as “pliant instruments.” ![]()
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