Cate Blanchett Opens Up About Harvey

Just when you think all of Harvey Weinstein‘s accusers have been accounted for, another horrific story emerges. Without going into great detail, Cate Blanchett told Variety that the disgraced movie mogul harassed her.

Blanchett has appeared in several Weinstein-produced movies, including The Aviator, Carol and The Shipping News.

• Asked if the producer sexually harassed or behaved inappropriately towards her, Blanchett replied: “With me, yes.”
• “I got a bad feeling from him,” Blanchett added. “He would often say to me, ‘We’re not friends.’” When asked why Weinstein didn’t consider her a friend, Blanchett replied, “I wouldn’t do what he was asking me to do.”
• The Time’s Up Movement supporter continued: “[Weinstein has] been held up as an exemplar because he’s unfortunately typical of certain men,” she said. “I’m interested in those people being prosecuted. We have to set a legal precedent.
• Weinstein has been accused of sexual misconduct, including rape, by more than 70 women is the subject of investigations in the U.S. and the U.K. He has also been targeted in a number of civil suits. He has denied all allegations of nonconsensual sex.
• On Tuesday, a producer on the Netflix series Marco Polo, Alexandra Canosa, also alleged he harassed her multiple times, a claim he denied. Canosa, unlike Blanchett, filed a complaint in court.

ON WOODY ALLEN

• Blanchett also addressed the controversy around director Woody Allen, whose adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow has accused him of molesting her.
• Allen has denied the allegations, but Blanchett and other actors who have worked with him have been criticized for not speaking out in support of Farrow.
• “But, far more important than me adding to yet another headline … and finger-pointing is, if that issue has not been dealt with,” she said. “I am absolutely for it to go back into the courts because there lies the solution.”

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