'Game Of Thrones's' Lena Headey Confesses To Being Victim Of Harvey Weinstein
Lena Headey is the latest celebrity to come forward about Harvey Weinstein's sexual abuse.
On Tuesday, the "Game of Thrones" star took to Twitter to share two separate incidents of the film mogul making sexually harassing her. Headey turned Weinstein down during both occasions, and this apparently left the studio head furious.
"The first time I met Harvey Weinstein was at the The Venice Film Festival. The Brothers Grimm was showing there, (during shooting I was subjected to endless bullying by the director Terry Gilliam)," Headey wrote on Twitter. "At one point Harvey asked me to take a walk down to the water, I walked down with him and he stopped and made some suggestive comment, a gesture, I just laughed it off, I was genuinely shocked, I remember thinking, it's got to be a joke, I said something like ..oh come on mate?!?? It'd be like kissing my dad !! let's go get a drink, get back to the others. I was never in any other Miramax film."
After a few years, the "300" star and Weinstein met again. Headey thought that the film producer would not try anything again as she had already rejected him. She thought that he respected her boundaries and that they would only talk about a potential work, but their conversation took a sharp turn when he invited her to his room.
"Then he went to the loo. He came back and said, let's go up to the room, I want to give you a script. We walked to the lift and the energy shifted," Headey continued. "My whole body went into high alert, the lift was going up and I said to Harvey, I'm not interested in anything other than work, please don't think I get in here with you for any other reason, nothing is going to happen I said."
Headey wasn't sure why she said those words, but they apparently made Weinstein furious. They walked to his room and he tried his key card, but it didn't work. He led her back to the elevator and paid for his car. Weinstein allegedly threatened her to not share the incident with other people. The actress then got into her car and cried.
Aside from Headey, several other female stars have admitted that they were victims of sexual harassment and assault over the past few weeks. Kate Beckinsale also shared her encounter with Weinstein on Instagram. According to the "Pearl Harbor" star, she said "no" to the movie mogul multiple times.
According to Us Weekly, there is a growing list of celebrities who have accused Weinstein of abusing them. This includes Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ashley Judd and Asia Argento.
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