Rachel Griffiths wants people to start respecting sex workers. Now. “If we disrespect sex workers, we are disrespecting women.
It’s the same thing,” she says. “In Australia, we are in the throes of terrible violence against women. We’ve had more of them die at the hands of their partners or ex-partners in the first three months of the year than in all of last year.
People used to talk about what a woman was wearing if something bad happened to her. If she was a sex worker, nobody investigated these cases. I really hope we grow out of it.
” In her new show “ Madam ,” Griffiths – a “Six Feet Under” and “Brothers & Sisters” star, nominated for an Academy Award for “Hilary and Jackie” – plays Mack Leigh. The show had its world premiere Saturday at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival . After discovering her husband has been hiring a sex worker, she decides to open a safe, “ethical brothel” herself.
The show is set in New Zealand, which decriminalized sex work back in 2003. “It became a feminist issue. Women couldn’t be incarcerated, penalized or fined for providing a service.
What’s the difference between a massage and a blowjob?!” “Madam” is inspired by the true story of Antonia Murphy, who wrote about her experience. “She had an unpublished autobiography that was so helpful. As an actor, you dream of someone to go: ‘Here’s 200 pages of everything that has ever happened.
’ I did have dinner with her once, but I didn’t want t.