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Sienna Miller is having a golden age: Protagonist of the series Anatomy of a scandal (Netflix), has returned to center stage. Professionally, of course, but also for some statements to the The Guardian: the 40-year-old actress, in fact, retraced the tormented love story (with betrayal) with Jude Law (currently in theaters with Fantastic Beasts: Dumbledore’s Secrets). “I was his girlfriend and this protected me”: the sentence refers to the possibility of being subjected to sexual abuse by the producer Harvey Weinstein, currently sentenced to 23 years for precisely crimes of rape.
According to the blonde, however, Jude Law was one of the highlights of the Weinstein stablethanks to films like de The talent of Mr. Ripley And Cold Mountain, and this would have protected her from the predator’s clutches. In the meantime, she too had turned Factory Girlagain for the producer, so she had entered his circle but referred to him as “Dad”a nickname that, always according to him, would have helped her to desexualize the relationship.
The actress recalls an episode that saw her in tears: during rehearsals for the film Weinstein ordered her to drop everything and go to his office. He sent a car and she had to obey. Of her Thus she found herself, silently, on her chair while he loomed over her yelling at her that she should cut off her social life to have better performance in the takes. He screamed enough to leave her speechless after slamming the door violently. And this, according to the recollections of the actress, it left her sobbingonly to then return to her to tell her to be very proud (and leave by slamming the door again behind her).
In short, according to him, this is a rite of passage: “You weren’t really someone until Weinstein made you cry.” Fortunately those times seem to be over.
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