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Backlash is coming. “Game of Thrones” star Lena Headey revealed Tuesday that she had her own disturbing experience with Harvey Weinstein in an elevator — and when she rebuffed him, he warned her to keep her mouth shut.
“He whispered in my ear Don’t tell anyone about this, not your manager, not your agent. I got into my car and I cried,” the British actress wrote on Twitter.
Headey, who plays Queen Cersei Lannister on the hit HBO series, said Weinstein tried to get her into his hotel room. When she warned him she wasn’t “interested in anything other than work,” he became “furious,” she said.
“His hand was on my back, he was marching me forward . . . I felt completely powerless,” Headey tweeted.
Luckily, she said, Weinstein’s hotel key card wasn’t working — so he angrily marched her back to the elevator and ordered her to keep quiet. And Headey wasn’t the only one sharing her Hollywood horror story.
Reese Witherspoon revealed that she was sexually assaulted bby a director when she was just a teen.
“[I feel] true disgust at the director who assaulted me when I wwas 16 years old and anger at the agents and the producers who made me feel that silence was a condition of my employment,” she said at the Elle Women in Hollywood event Monday night.
“And I wish that I could tell you that was an isolated incident in my career, but sadly it wasn’t. I’ve had multiple experiences of harassment and sexual assault and I don’t speak about them very often.”
At the same event, Jennifer Lawrence said she once had to do a “nude lineup” with other actresses and was told to lose 15 pounds in two weeks.
“After that degrading and humiliating lineup, the female producer told me I should use the naked photos of myself as inspiration for my diet,” Lawrence told the crowd. Her male director made things worse. “He said he didn’t know why everyone thought I was so fat, he thought I was ‘perfectly f--kable,’ ” she revealed.
Meanwhile, Molly Ringwald published a firsthand account of growing up in the lecherous industry.
“When I was thirteen, a fifty-year-old crew member told me that he would teach me to dance, and then proceeded to push against me with an erection,” she wrote in The New Yorker. “At fourteen, a married film director stuck his tongue in my mouth on set.”
Ringwald was in one of Weinstein’s first productions, 1990’s “Strike It Rich,” but says she was “lucky.”
“Thankfully, I wasn’t cajoled into a taxi, nor did I have to turn down giving or getting a massage,” she wrote.