‘Weinstein furious after I rejected his advances’ – Headey
GAME Of Thrones star Lena Headey has claimed Harvey Weinstein was “furious” after she rejected his advances.
The actress, 44, shared an account on social media of an interaction with the movie mogul, who is facing dozens of allegations of sexual assault by stars across the film world. She wrote on Twitter: “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 !!”
She said that years later, Weinstein asked her to meet for breakfast before attempting to ask her about her love life, until she “shifted the conversation back to something less personal”.
After he visited the toilet, he asked her up to his room to give her a script, she claimed. She continued: “We walked to the lift and the energy shifted, 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 got in here with you for any other reason, nothing is going to happen I said. 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.”
Headey added: “He was silent after I spoke, furious. We got out of the lift and walked to his room. His hand was on my back, he was marching me forward, not a word, I felt completely powerless, he tried his key card and it didn’t work, then he got really angry.
“He walked me back to the lift, through the hotel to the valet, by grabbing and holding tightly to the back of my arm, he paid for my car and whispered in my ear ‘Don’t tell anyone about this, not your manager, not your agent’.
“I got into my car and I cried.”