Ultimately, I’ve come to believe that actors and actresses don’t keep working with Polanski because they believe art is a higher imperative or because there’s some kind of kinship between artistic spirits. Rather, I think famous actors and actresses can justify working with Polanski because they’re privileged enough not to see him, and people like him, as a threat. When you can hire bodyguards and a security system, when you can get expedited restraining orders against stalkers, when your children have bodyguards or private tutors or both, when you can get them into good schools and in front of directors, or producers, or the gatekeepers of whatever trade they hope to enter, I suppose it’s difficult to imagine being, or having anyone in your family be so vulnerable, that you’d take your clothes off for for a director just for his pleasure, that take drugs or drink alcohol you didn’t want to consume, much less imagine being attacked.