Actor George Clooney has denied helping blacklist actress Vanessa Marquez after she complained about sexual and racial harassment on the set of the hit TV series ER. Marquez played Nurse Wendy Goldman on the first three years of the show’s 15-year run (1994-2009) on NBC.
Clooney’s role in the original ER cast as Dr. Doug Ross launched his A-list career. Marquez, however, appears to have just 23 acting credits on her IMDB page, and only six since she left ER in 1997.
Marquez took to Twitter this week to claim that Clooney participated in blacklisting her (i.e., preventing her from getting work in the entertainment industry) after she lodged an internal harassment complaint. She also claimed that the first question from ER executive producer John Wells was “did George do something to you?” Vanessa Marquez also maintains that
In a statement, George Clooney seemed to shrug off the whole thing, Deadline Hollywood reported.
“I had no idea Vanessa was blacklisted. I take her at her word. I was not a writer or a producer or a director on that show. I had nothing to do with casting. I was an actor and only an actor. If she was told I was involved in any decision about her career then she was lied to.
The fact that I couldn’t affect her career is only surpassed by the fact that I wouldn’t.”
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