Crystal Hefner Calls Out Playboy Movie, Asks Jessica Biel to Drop Role
Crystal Hefner says the film could romanticize Hugh Hefner and the Playboy world, citing abuse allegations and concerns about minors.
- On Thursday, October 8, Crystal Hefner urged actress Jessica Biel to reconsider her role in the upcoming film Playmates. Hefner, widow of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, asked Biel to avoid romanticizing the Playboy world.
- In her 2024 memoir, Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself, Crystal detailed her experiences in the mansion. She claimed the relationship was abusive, citing sexual, emotional, financial, and physical exploitation during their five years together.
- The film Playmates, directed by Lorraine Nicholson, features Biel as a fictionalized version of Hugh Hefner's wife. The cast also stars Lily-Rose Depp, Bill Pullman, and Indiana Elle navigating life inside the Playboy Mansion.
- Crystal highlighted "deeply troubling concerns" regarding minors in her message to Biel, claiming that "many other women have come forward with allegations of rape, coercion, drugging and exploitation." She urged the cast to listen to survivors' stories.
- Hefner requested the cast listen to survivors before "helping Hollywood turn it back into nostalgia," despite Playmates being a fictionalized coming-of-age story. Production on the film, which follows a thirteen-year-old girl, was announced last month.
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Hugh Hefner’s Widow Fears Hollywood Will Turn His Legacy Into Nostalgia
Content Warning: This article discusses allegations of sexual, emotional and physical abuse. Crystal Harris is warning Hollywood against turning Hugh Hefner’s legacy into nostalgia. After Jessica Biel joined the upcoming Playmates movie, Hefner’s widow publicly asked her to think carefully about the project. Harris said filmmakers should first listen to women who experienced life around […]
Redacción Internacional, 9 Oct (EFE).- Crystal Harris, who was married to Playboy’s founder Hugh Hefner until his death in 2017, asked actress Jessica Biel to reconsider interpreting a fictional version of her in the next film entitled ‘Playmates’. “Please reconsider playing Hefner’s ‘wife’ if this film tries [...] La entrada Hugh Hefner’s widow asks Jessica Biel to reconsider playing it in a film was first published in HolaNews.
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