The campaign against Meryl Streep is heating up, with photos of the Academy Award-winning actress labelled with the hashtag #sheknew being posted by street artists around Los Angeles.
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The posters imply the Devil Wears Prada star was an enabler of Harvey Weinstein's alleged sexual abuse; a claim she has vehemently denied. Most of the posters appear to contain the same photo of Streep and Weinstein smiling, am-in-arm, with a red strip placed across her face labelled with the white hashtag.
The art is a take on the work of artist Barbara Kruger, whose work is known for the signature white text in red banners.
The posters come after alleged Weinstein victim Rose McGowan attacked Streep for her planned silent protest at the 2018 Golden Globes.
Streep is one of many actresses planning to wear all-black gowns in protest of recent sexual misconduct cases in the industry.
"Actresses, like Meryl Streep, who happily worked for The Pig Monster [Harvey Weinstein], are wearing black @GoldenGlobes in a silent protest," McGowan tweeted in a since-deleted post.
"YOUR SILENCE is THE problem. You'll accept a fake award breathlessly & affect no real change. I despise your hypocrisy. Maybe you should all wear Marchesa."
Streep responded with a statement to the Huffington Post, saying she was "hurt" by McGowan's comments.
"It hurt to be attacked by Rose McGowan in banner headlines this weekend, but I want to let her know I did not know about Weinstein's crimes, not in the 90s when he attacked her, or through subsequent decades when he proceeded to attack others," Streep said.
"I wasn't deliberately silent. I didn't know. I don't tacitly approve of rape. I didn't know. I don't like young women being assaulted. I didn't know this was happening."
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