Posted on 10/17/2017 8:42:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Game Of Thrones star Lena Headey has claimed movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was "furious" after she rejected his advances.
The British actress, who plays Cersei Lannister in the HBO show, detailed meetings between herself and Weinstein in which he allegedly made "suggestive" comments and left her in tears.
Headey is the latest in a growing list of women to make accusations against the producer.
Headey joins a list of celebrities including Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Cara Delevingne, Rose McGowan, Alice Evans and Sophie Dix who have spoken out against Weinstein's conduct.
In a series of posts on Twitter, she told how she got into her car and "cried" after the filmmaker invited her up to his hotel room.
In one post, she described her first meeting with Weinstein at the Venice Film Festival, where she said that after asking her to walk by the water with him, he "made some suggestive comment, a gesture" which she "laughed off".
Headey then described how years later in Los Angeles, she shared a lift with Weinstein after he invited her up to his room to show her a script.
She wrote: "The lift was going up and I said to Harvey, 'I'm not interested in anything other than work, please don't think I got in here with you for any other reason, nothing is going to happen'.
"I don't know what possessed me to speak out at that moment, only that I had such a strong sense of don't come near me.
"He was silent after I spoke, furious."
After Weinstein's room key card failed to work, he "got really angry" and "walked me back to the lift, through the hotel to the valet, by grabbing and holding tightly to the back of my arm".
The actress said Weinstein whispered to her not to tell anyone about the incident, after which she "got into my car and cried".
The latest accusations follow several made by actresses in the US against Weinstein - four of rape and more than 30 of sexual harassment - and come after his British wife Georgina Chapman said she was leaving him.
Another woman, an unnamed former Miramax employee, said Weinstein - who co-founded his film studio in the late 1970s with his brother - raped her in the basement flat of his London offices in around 1992.
Scotland Yard earlier confirmed three accusations had been made relating to alleged sexual assaults in London in 2010, 2011 and 2015. These followed another claim, passed to Scotland Yard detectives by Merseyside Police, relating to an alleged sexual assault in the capital in the late 1980s.
Through his spokeswoman, Weinstein has "unequivocally denied" any allegations of non-consensual sex after three actresses said he had raped them in an article in The New Yorker.
He is currently undergoing therapy but reportedly hoped that he could return to his career.
Tell the #METOO group to name names!
That's Hedley!
Ser Strong is going to be very displeased with the Fat Pig.
I have a hard time believing all these women turned him down and still got work.
I want to hear from all the women who turned him down then never got another role. There has to be blacklists.
Uh oh.
At this point, it might be interesting to hear from the one or two females in the entertainment industry that Harvey Weinstein didn’t harass. When did this perv find time to work?
Long story, but I met her once. She seemed exactly like she’d have told him that it was just business. I think she got that attitude from being a cop’s daughter. They have to learn to stand up to that pushy cop attitude at a young age. That’s my theory.
I dunno, he used to shoot for a better grouping.
He offered to enumerate her tattoos, but he couldn’t count that high.
Most beautiful woman on that show and it has no shortage of fine assed wimmin
Harvey is lucky the imp killed Tywin or he’d be in serious trouble
Tywin (Dance)was the most accomplished actor on the set besides Peter Vaughn
And Tywin understood how the game was played
I can see an established actor turning him down and working. I am betting his real victims will be those girls 17, 18, and 19 year old girls that showed up to job interviews that would lead to small one and two line parts not realizing what he required of them to get work.
Holy Cornrows, Buckwheat. Many, many moons ago I occasionally invited women to go someplace private with me, but none of them cried over it.
Kill it. Kill it with fire.
“I want to hear from all the women who turned him down then never got another role. There has to be blacklists.
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I’m sure that list is lengthy and most of the names are of actresses we probably wouldn’t know. Such is the nature of Weinstein’s crime. He could ‘break you’ if you were an unknown or mid-level actress.
A number of women have come forward and said they quit trying to get acting jobs after casting couch invites.
Where’s the honest ones who will admit they got what they wanted when he got what he wanted?
In today’s post-Christian world, who are we to judge whether what he did, or what the women did, is right or wrong?
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