“It’s classless how everyone is rushing to release something for the 50th anniversary of this horrific event.” “It doesn’t matter who it is acting in it-it’s just tasteless,” Tate, who was 16 when her sister was murdered, continued. On Wednesday, she spoke to People to express that she feels Duff’s role is “classless” and “exploitative”-though she’s not exactly blaming Duff herself.

The minute Sharon’s sister Debra sees this you’re going to regret it.”)ĭebra Tate feels the same way as those commenters, it would seem. Poor taste,” and “Did you fall down and smack your god damn head on the concrete?! This is post is so inconsiderate, heartless and flat out disgusting. (Sample comments on the post: “Yeah too bad Sharon never got to have her son. And, less than a week ago, Duff wasn’t looking so good when it came to telling Tate’s story herself: Before the rumored role was confirmed, she posted an Instagram of herself looking like Tate and holding a swaddled teddy bear, with the caption “Had the baby” and a wide-eyed emoji. “I Will Not Be Silent”: Hollywood’s Biggest Names Pledge to Speak Their Minds:Īs Tarantino’s actions have become news thanks to Uma Thurman, the director’s 2003 comments about the Roman Polanski’s statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl about a decade after Tate’s murder-specifically that she “ wanted to have it“-have recently resurfaced, begging the question of whether he’s really the right person to tell Tate’s story. (A quick, gruesome recap of what happened that night in August of 1969: Members of Charles Manson’s “family” stabbed Tate, an actress and model who was married to Roman Polanski, to death when she was just two weeks away from giving birth, resulting in her death as well as those of her soon-to-be baby and the friends she’d been with that night, including Sebring.)

Written and directed by Daniel Farrands, who seems to specialize in horror, the film also stars Jonathan Bennett, aka Aaron Samuels from Mean Girls, who’ll play Tate’s friend and ex-boyfriend Jay Sebring, whose body police discovered at the crime scene at Tate’s house with a rope connecting his neck to Tate’s.

But Hilary Duff, the actress, is back and making waves ever since the confirmation this week that she’ll be playing Sharon Tate in Skyline Entertainment’s upcoming psychological horror film The Haunting of Sharon Tate. Other than starring in the TV Land series Younger, Hilary Duff has been largely missing from the public eye for the last few years as an actress, with her most notable movie role dating back to 2003’s The Lizzie McGuire Movie.

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