Uma Thurman breaks silence, says Weinstein assaulted her
4 Feb 2018 8:08 PM IST
New York: Actor Uma Thurman has opened up about her experience of working for disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and alleged that he assaulted her in a London hotel suite in the mid-1990s.
The Kill Bill star had earlier said that she is "waiting to feel less angry" before she addresses the scandal surrounding Weinstein and the ongoing problem of sexual harassment in Hollywood.
Now, in an interview with the New York Times, Thurman detailed an alleged attack by Weinstein and also discussed her distressed relationship with frequent collaborator Quentin Tarantino.
"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.
"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," Thurman said about the incident in London's Savoy hotel.
The London incident was preceded by a strange meeting in Weinstein's Paris hotel room, where he stripped down to just a bathrobe during a discussion about a script. Thurman said that as they were talking he led her to a steam room, and when she asked him why, he got "flustered" and ran out of the room.
Thurman claimed that her fragile equation with Weinstein changed her relationship with Quentin Tarantino.
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