Walking her dog on a mid-May morning, Amber Tamblyn is reflecting on “I’m Done With Not Being Believed,” an op-ed she wrote for The New York Times last September. The piece alleged that actor James Woods flirted with a then-16-year-old Tamblyn at a restaurant—and that, when he learned Tamblyn’s age, he responded, “Even better.” Woods, via Twitter, had called Tamblyn’s story “a lie,” which only enhanced its resonance. “I went to some party with my husband, and all these women—network executives, heads of studios, actresses I’d never met—were coming up to me almost in tears,” Tamblyn recalls. “For them, not being believed has always been part of the zeitgeist.” Weeks after the op-ed’s publication, the #MeToo movement would begin shaking the industry to its core, a reckoning for its mistreatment…
