'Game of Thrones' Star Had 'Disturbing' Encounters with Harvey Weinstein

It's getting difficult to find a woman in Hollywood who hasn't claimed she was harassed or assaulted by producer Harvey Weinstein. This week, Game of Thrones star Lena Headey tweeted about encounters she had with Weinstein that were, if not actually sexual assault or harassment, at least very creepy.

Via The Hollywood Reporter.

Lena Headey has spoken out about her experience with Harvey Weinstein, detailing a disturbing past encounter with the disgraced movie mogul in a series of posts to her Twitter account.

The Game of Thrones star says she met Weinstein at the 2005 Venice Film Festival, which premiered a movie she co-stared in, The Brothers Grimm. The film, which starred Matt Damon and Heath Ledger, was directed by Terry Gilliam — whom Headey claims subjected her to "endless bullying" — and was distributed by Weinstein's Miramax studio.

"At one point Harvey asked me to take a walk down to the water, I walked down with him and he stopped and made some suggestive comment, a gesture," she writes. She says she was shocked but laughed it off with a joke. "I was never in any other Miramax film."

Years later in Los Angeles, the British star says she "always carried the thought that he’d never try anything with me again, not after I’d laughed and said never in a million years." So when he asked to meet her for breakfast, she assumed it would be professional.

During the meeting, she says she and Weinstein talked about films, but that he also asked her questions about her love life. When he returned from the bathroom, she says he said, "Let’s go up to the room, I want to give you a script." She says that as they walked to the elevator, "the energy shifted" and her "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,'" she recalled, explaining, "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."

She says his response was silence and that he was "furious."

She continues, "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.'"

She ended the post by saying, "I got into my car and I cried."

Read the rest of the story at The Hollywood Reporter.

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