iFreePress Bringing News on Time Every Time Lawyers for Bill Cosby argue in a new court filing his admission he used quaaludes in the 1970s doesn’t mean he drugged and sexually assaulted women.
Bill Cosby settled his lawsuit with Constand out of court in 2006.
Nonie Robinson, the producer of the documentary, stated that it would have been their last with the comedian, but now they have chose to disassociate and cut all ties with him, Deadline.com reported.
LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS The upcoming documentary “Painted Down” has cut Bill Cosby, according to a report.
Robinson said the film, which also features Whoopi Goldberg, had been “standing by” Cosby, the iconic entertainer besieged by multiple accusations of drugging and raping going back decades to the years he was in I Spy.
For the film, now in post-production, Cosby gave an interview about his experience with the practice on the 1960s TV series “I Spy“.
“The day of the shooting, I showed up for that scene to see it”, he said in the interview. “I had no knowledge that there are no black stuntmen”. Then they pulled out this wig.
Cosby protested the move and a black stuntman was hired the next day. This makes some sense as it turns out it’s actually hard to tell the story of the history of black stuntmen without him. “It’s not that we’re turning our backs on him, but the controversy is getting too much to deal with”. The makers of the movie, “Painted Down“, have confirmed that the comedian is no longer associated with the project.
“Even though it is a part of history and there isn’t anything we can do to take away what he did for stunt performers, at the same time we can no longer glorify it in light of these allegations”, she said, adding that the goal of the project is to “bring awareness” to the antiquated practice of “Paint Down”, which she says still occurs today. The Cosby Show is still playing on Netflix and Hulu, but that hardly counts as an active project.
