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Bill Maher calls for Polanski's US arrest

Bill Maher calls for Polanski's US arrest

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Bill Maher has reportedly called for Roman Polanski's US arrest.

The 53-year-old Real Time With Bill Maher host has criticized celebrities for supporting the controversial filmmaker, who was recently arrested in Switzerland for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1978.

Maher told The Wrap: "Come back and go to jail. I don't understand why Hollywood defends somebody like that. It makes it so easy for conservatives to say that Hollywood has no values. It makes us look so bad.

"Why people I respect, like Martin Scorsese and Harvey Weinstein and Whoopi Goldberg... How can these people not see something so black and white? You cannot give a 13-year-old girl drugs and f**k her in the ass."

He added: "For Hollywood to rally around these guys smacks of what the Catholic Church does when it defends its paedophile priests... He never paid the price for a pretty horrible crime... This girl - if you read the testimony - makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up. She was saying no. I guess to a director you have to say, 'Cut'."

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