Why TheLoudestVoice slow-played Roger Ailes' sexual harassment — until It didn't
In earlier installments, the Showtime drama about the creation of Fox News hadn't danced around the fact that Roger Ailes reportedly had sexually abusive relationships with his employees, as well as sexually harassing others. But "2009" opens with Laurie Luhn on her knees before Ailes, humiliated and teary-eyed. She says she "can't do this anymore." He pushes her to finish, saying "we can talk about that later.
Luhn was just one of the female Fox News employees whom Ailes harassed and eventually drove away from the company, though the extent of his abuse as CEO wasn't fully revealed until Gretchen Carlson's bombshell 2016 lawsuit, which gave the Murdoch family the ammunition they needed to demand Ailes' resignation later that year.
Metcalf notes that the choice to ramp up the depiction of Ailes' abuse over the course of the series was a very deliberate one, though one that's planted from the beginning. "The interview with the young woman in episode one, where he runs his finger across her lips — it's deeply uncomfortable," he says. "But with the Laurie Luhn storylines specifically, dramatically, you have to build to that.
With Ailes, Metcalf says, "it's harder [to do so], and I admit that, especially if you don't support what he did in his professional life. But I tried really hard not to be judgmental, personally, right here in the telling of Roger's story. I think it's very easy to be judgmental."
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