Originally posted by: Mallika-E-Bhais
OMG. That Thandie Newton audition story really, really, creeps me out!!!! What an absolutely sick, disgusting thing to do to anyone!!! No wonder these women have no place to go. Imagine an act that you've been coerced to do, that you realise was actually secretly filmed, which means without your knowledge, now being shown all over!!!! God this makes me so angry!! I hope he is bankrupt & on the street!! UGH!
Academy Award winner George Clooney, who was given his first big-screen acting break by Harvey Weinstein in the 1996 film From Dusk Till Dawn, has become the latestand most high-profilemember of Hollywood to speak out on the alleged sexual misconduct allegations against his sometime employer.
"It's indefensible. That's the only word you can start with, he says. "Harvey's admitted to it, and it's indefensible. I've known Harvey for 20 years. He gave me my first big break as an actor in films on From Dusk Till Dawn, he gave me my first big break as a director with Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. We've had dinners, we've been on location together, we've had arguments. But I can tell you that I've never seen any of this behaviorever.
Clooney spoke to me at length about the allegationsas well as charges of Hollywood complicityduring a phone conversation late Monday.
His remarks come in the wake of statements released by Meryl Streep and Dame Judi Dench, two actresses who've won Oscars for Weinstein-shepherded films and who took the bullying movie mogul to task for allegedly preying on vulnerable young women for 30 years, resulting in at least eight settlements, according to a bombshell New York Times expos.
Weinstein's accusers, among them the actress Ashley Judd, shared similar horror stories: a "business meeting at a lavish hotel suite soon gave way to a series of sexual propositions, including watching him shower. One local TV reporter, Lauren Sivan, claimed that Weinstein cornered her in the bowels of his restaurant, told her to "be quiet, and masturbated into a potted plant.
Weinstein, the former co-chief of Miramax, has since been fired from The Weinstein Companywhich he co-founded with his brother Boband many of the male actors and filmmakers in particular who have benefited from the studio executive's Oscar Midas touch, from Matt Damon and Ben Affleck (Good Will Hunting) to Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), have remained alarmingly silent.
Clooney, on the other hand, was anything but.
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