Salma Hayek: "Harvey Weinstein wanted to perform on me and threatened to kill me"
Two months after the first accusations against Harvey Weinstein came to light, actress Salma Hayek reported that the producer harassed her multiple times, threatened her with death and pressured her to film love scenes. York Times', the Mexican actress said she had to say "no" to Weinstein when he proposed to shower together and offered to give him a massage or perform oral s*x. Hayek confesses that at first he thought that his testimony was not necessary, since there were already enough women who had raised their voices and he did not believe that his testimony would change anything, but finally he realized that telling his story would be the only one way to "solve" that "chapter" of your life.
The actress defines Weinstein as a "passionate movie buff, a daring man, a patron of the film industry, a loving father and a monster" and details the hell that was involved working alongside him in the 2002 film 'Frida'. The interpreter wonders if it was her friendship with important figures such as Quentin Tarantino, George Clooney, the film director Robert RodrÃguez and the latter's wife, the producer Elizabeth Avellan, that saved her "from being raped." Hayek recalls how on one occasion Weinstein made the entire crew leave the set except for her, and reproached her for playing Frida Kahlo with her unique unibrow, since this made her less attractive and, according to him, her only value as an actress was his 's*x appeal', and "there was none of that in the movie."
After this dispute, the producer told him that he would cancel the film, although he finally agreed to continue filming as long as Hayek agreed to record a love scene with actress Ashley Judd, who also reported harassment by Weinstein. filming the love scene, she suffered an anxiety attack, "for the first and last time" in her career, and began to cry while her body shook uncontrollably. "It wasn't like this because she was going to be n*ked with another woman. She was because she was going to be n*ked with a woman to please Harvey Weinstein," the actress said.
