Uma Thurman details Harvey Weinstein assault: ?He did all kinds of unpleasant things?
Uma Thurman was allegedly assaulted by Harvey Weinstein as she starred in some of his most famous films directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Thurman, , previously said she was ?angry? when the Weinstein story broke and said she had her own story to tell ? now, the ?Kill Bill? star has opened up about her disturbing encounter in conversation with The New York Times, sharing that Weinstein forced himself on her and then she was the one threatening to end his career if he acted that way toward anyone else.
?I knew him pretty well before he attacked me,? she said of Weinstein, who she befriended after starring in Tarantino?s cult-classic ?Pulp Fiction.?
?He used to spend hours talking to me about material and complimenting my mind and validating me. It possibly made me overlook warning signs. This was my champion. I was never any kind of studio darling. He had a chokehold on the type of films and directors that were right for me.?
The first time things went awry was in the film honcho?s Paris hotel room while arguing over a script before Weinstein came out in the bathrobe.
He led her down a hall, where they continued talking and before she knew it they were in a steam room.
?I was standing there in my full black leather outfit ? boots, pants, jacket. And it was so hot and I said, ?This is ridiculous, what are you doing?? And he was getting very flustered and mad and he jumped up and ran out,? she told The Times.
Not long after, Thurman said Weinstein attacked her at his suite in London?s Savoy Hotel.
BY
NICOLE BITETTE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Saturday, February 3, 2018, 11:01 AM
Uma Thurman was allegedly assaulted by Harvey Weinstein as she starred in some of his most famous films directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Thurman, , previously said she was ?angry? when the Weinstein story broke and said she had her own story to tell ? now, the ?Kill Bill? star has opened up about her disturbing encounter in conversation with The New York Times, sharing that Weinstein forced himself on her and then she was the one threatening to end his career if he acted that way toward anyone else.
?I knew him pretty well before he attacked me,? she said of Weinstein, who she befriended after starring in Tarantino?s cult-classic ?Pulp Fiction.?
?He used to spend hours talking to me about material and complimenting my mind and validating me. It possibly made me overlook warning signs. This was my champion. I was never any kind of studio darling. He had a chokehold on the type of films and directors that were right for me.?
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The first time things went awry was in the film honcho?s Paris hotel room while arguing over a script before Weinstein came out in the bathrobe.
He led her down a hall, where they continued talking and before she knew it they were in a steam room.
?I was standing there in my full black leather outfit ? boots, pants, jacket. And it was so hot and I said, ?This is ridiculous, what are you doing?? And he was getting very flustered and mad and he jumped up and ran out,? she told The Times.
Not long after, Thurman said Weinstein attacked her at his suite in London?s Savoy Hotel.
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?It was such a bat to the head. He pushed me down. He tried to shove himself on me. He tried to expose himself. He did all kinds of unpleasant things. But he didn?t actually put his back into it and force me,? Thurman recalled. ?You?re like an animal wriggling away, like a lizard. I was doing anything I could to get the train back on the track. My track. Not his track.?
She was staying with a friend, Ilona Herman, Robert De Niro?s longtime makeup artist, who later worked on ?Kill Bill,? when yellow roses were sent from Weinstein the next day.
Thurman brought Herman back to the Savoy to speak to Weinstein about his behavior, but his assistants protected the famous producer, led her upstairs and left her alone with Weinstein.
She reportedly turned the tables on him and said: ?If you do what you did to me to other people you will lose your career, your reputation and your family, I promise you.?
Weinstein told The Times in a statement through a rep that Thurman ?very well could have said this.?
Herman recalled Thurman looking dishelved and upset when she returned from the encounter and said that Thurman told her Weinstein threatened to derail her career.
Weinstein denied threatening the actress? career, but acknowleged making a pass at her.
?He immediately apologized,? his rep said.
Thurman said the animosity between her and Weinstein after that infected her working relationship with Tarantino.
She once again reminded Tarantino of the Savoy encounter while they were at Canned Film Festival in 2001.
?The penny dropped for him. He confronted Harvey,? she recalled.
Later, Thurman filmed ?Kill Bill? and ina famous scene where she?s driving a blue convertible, she was in an accident.
She was informed by the teamsters on set that the car might not be working that well ? and she becamse scared.
?Quentin came in my trailer and didn?t like to hear no, like any director,? she says. ?He was furious because I?d cost them a lot of time. But I was scared. He said: ?I promise you the car is fine. It?s a straight piece of road.??
He eventually persuaded her to do it, saying ?Hit 40 miles per hour or your hair won?t blow the right way and I?ll make you do it again.? But that was a deathbox that I was in. The seat wasn?t screwed down properly. It was a sand road and it was not a straight road.?
For 15 years, Thurman tried to get the footage of the accident in which her legs were jammed under the steering wheel.
She came back from the hospital in a neck brace and injured her knee.
?Quentin and I had an enormous fight, and I accused him of trying to kill me. And he was very angry at that, I guess understandably, because he didn?t feel he had tried to kill me.?
For years promoting the Miramax films together, Thurman and Tarantino were in a terrible fight.
After the accusations against Weinstein came to light, Thurmanw as upset there had not been more legal repercussions. She handed over information from the crash to police and pressured Tarantino further to release the footage.
?Quentin finally atoned by giving it to me after 15 years, right?? she told The Times. ?Not that it matters now, with my permanently damaged neck and my screwed-up knees.?
To share her life story even further, the actress opened up to The Times that she had been raped as a teenager living in Manhattan by an actor nearly 20 years older.
?I was ultimately compliant,? she remembers. ?I tried to say no, I cried, I did everything I could do. He told me the door was locked but I never ran over and tried the knob. When I got home, I remember I stood in front of the mirror and I looked at my hands and I was so mad at them for not being bloody or bruised. Something like that tunes the dial one way or another, right? You become more compliant or less compliant, and I think I became less compliant,? she recalled.
What ultimately hurt Thurman the most about Weinstein is that she was part of the reason many young girls continued to be in his room alone.
?Quentin used Harvey as the executive producer of ?Kill Bill,? a movie that symbolizes female empowerment,? she said. ?And all these lambs walked into slaughter because they were convinced nobody rises to such a position who would do something illegal to you, but they do.?
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/uma-thurman-details-harvey-weinstein-assault-article-1.3796728Full Article + Footage Of The Crash: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/opinion/sunday/this-is-why-uma-thurman-is-angry.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur
