New York Post

Harvey’s sleazy casting test

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A FORMER actress says she quit the industry after Harvey Weinstein forced her to touch his privates on his office couch in 1989 — saying he wanted to find out if she was good in bed before offering her any roles.

“He told me this is how things work in Hollywood, and all of the actresses that have made it have made it this way,” Heather Kerr said in tears at a press conference alongside lawyer Glo

ria Allred. “He told me first I would have sex with him, then he would take me to parties and show me who I would sleep with after that. But first, he needed to know how good I was.”

Kerr, who had small roles on “The Facts of Life” and “Mama’s Family,” said she was working for an entertainm­ent business manager in Los Angeles at the time and Weinstein was a client who offered to help with her career.

But the meeting took a creepy turn when the producer kept saying he needed to know how “good” she was — and it became clear he didn’t mean “good at acting.”

“The next thing I knew he had unzipped his fly and pulled out his penis,” she said. “He then grabbed my hand and pulled me toward him, and forced my hand onto his penis and held it there. I was frozen with fear trying to remain calm because, after all, there was no one else in the office.” She ran out of the office — and away from the entertainm­ent industry forever. Her reason for not reporting Weinstein: “I didn’t think anyone would believe me. I was nobody. Why would they?” she said.

Kerr is one of many women who have accused Weinstein of sexual assault and rape. On Thursday, “Blade Runner” star Sean

Young revealed her own unsolicite­d encounter with Weinstein. She says he whipped out his genitals “in order to shock me” on the set of “Love Crimes” in 1992. “My basic response was, ‘ You know, Harvey, I really don’t think you should be pulling that thing out. It’s not very pretty,’ ” Young, now 57, told KLBJ-FM.

Weinstein, who is in sex rehab, has denied any non-consensual sex or encounters occurred.

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