Aidan Turner says society 'can't dismiss' victims of abuse like in Fifteen-Love

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Aidan Turner spoke to Yahoo UK about his new Prime Video show Fifteen-Love and how it approaches the subject of women calling out abuse against powerful men,.

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00:00 I find too often in society, women who do try and speak out about sexual abuse with

00:06 powerful men are often vilified or completely dismissed. And I wondered, you know, what did

00:10 you make of the way that this show kind of approaches that, especially with Justine and

00:14 how some people see as delusions at first, but actually, it's real.

00:18 It's like, who do you believe and on what basis? What makes you believe somebody over somebody

00:22 else when there's no evidence, say, like in this situation? What is it about somebody's character?

00:27 What is it about their all around disposition, the way they hold themselves, the way they dress,

00:30 what their friends say about them? And as an audience, I've always found that really interesting

00:38 to sit with people. And then the episode is finished and you kind of have a chat and you

00:41 go, look, what do you believe? I don't believe him at all. And here's why. And you're so like,

00:45 and you know, this person while you're talking to and you're thinking, what if they find that

00:49 they relate to that bit or they think that's a lie. And you sort of almost find it more about

00:53 the person who thinks that through the show. And I love that vehicle that we have in the show to do

00:58 that. But it's also, yeah, I mean, this is a world. It's like, who do we believe and on what

01:04 basis do we believe them? And with Justine, you know, we see her and it was mentioned earlier,

01:09 but like we we visit her in this show at a time when, you know, life is quite chaotic and her

01:16 thoughts are too, I think. And she might come across as somebody that possibly. To some people

01:24 might not be as believable as somebody who's well-groomed, who's quite suave and confident.

01:30 He has the backing of his peers and people around him, solid family, all the hallmarks of somebody

01:36 who should be by all accounts truthful with the way he's speaking. I think it's that first look

01:43 at somebody as well to go like we can't dismiss somebody saying something happened. We need to

01:47 explore like it needs to be fully explored. I think it's something else our show does

01:51 really well is that it just identifies safeguards and safety measures that need to be in place.

01:56 It's so easy if you find somebody with Glenn's character disposition or intentions that he can

02:01 manipulate situations to make them work in his favor. And it goes very dark and sinister.

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