Kate Beckinsale says Mark Ruffalo ‘benefits from having penis’ after she was fired
Kate Beckinsale has hit out on social media at Hollywood’s ‘male privilege’ (Picture: Shutterstock)
Kate Beckinsale has alleged that Mark Ruffalo ignored her after she claimed she was fired by her agent for liking a social media post about a ceasefire in Gaza.
The 52-year-old actress made a series of comments, which now appear to have been deleted, on a video shared by Mark Ruffalo that features him talking about and promoting the new film Palestine 36.
Writing beneath, she said: ‘It must be so nice not to be fired by your Agent for liking a post about a ceasefire and not supporting the murdering of children.’
Beckinsale’s comments, which were obtained by Entertainment Weekly, continued: ‘I guess having a penis in Hollywood really counts for a lot.
‘You’ve not been fired by the same Agent that I had and she sent me a gift the week before so we didn’t have any beef.
‘But I liked a post about a ceasefire and I’ve got fired on the same day as Susan Sarandon was fired, two days after the end of the strike after nine months of none of us being able to work at all.’
The 52-year-old actress made a series of comments on a video shared by Mark Ruffalo (Picture: Scott Kirkland/Shutterstock)
Beckinsale alleged that Mark Ruffalo ignored her after she claimed she was fired by her agent for liking a post about a ceasefire in Gaza (Picturet6s: Anthony Harvey/Shutterstock)
Beckinsale, who was ‘paralysed’ with grief after losing her mother Judy Loe in July 2025 and her stepfather, Roy Battersby, in 2024, also brought up how she has been struggling with recent deaths in her family.
‘I was dealing with the fact that on top of my mother having been told she had six weeks to live with brain cancer, and being [a] carer for both of them, the day before my stepfather had had a catastrophic stroke on top of two types of cancer,’ the star said under the Instagram post.
‘Which led to his death and I was preparing to fly to England to bring him back so that I could take full care of him and I was fired in two sentences after 12 years of friendship with my Agent and yours who is very close to her elderly parents and definitely knew what I was dealing with, alone.’
While she did not name the agent in her comment, Beckinsale claimed that she messaged Ruffalo ‘about this months ago but you ignored me’.
In a separate comment, she then responded to another user saying ‘I’m okay with him ignoring me’ before saying she felt like there was ‘male privilege even in the good guys’.
‘It is such a given that of course I did not get a response and I really and truly support Mark Ruffalo and everything he is doing but no I@will [sic] not get a response not here and not ever,’ she added.
Beckinsale said that she sent Ruffalo a message ‘months ago but he ignored it’ (Picture: Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock)
The British star wrote on social media: ‘I guess having a penis in Hollywood really counts for a lot’ (Picture: Stephane Cardinale /Corbis via Getty Images)
‘I sent a message to Mark months ago and he ignored it. There is absolutely no reason why he would respond to it now.’
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Clarifying later, she said that she was ‘not even blaming Mark for this’, but she is still ‘noticing it’ in general.
This comes after Beckinsale revealed how she was threatened with ‘being sued’ over cancelling work due to a miscarriage.
The actress recounted being forced by an unsympathetic publicist to complete the planned photography shoot despite what she was still going through, both physically and mentally.
Metro has contacted Beckinsale and Ruffalo for comment.
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