{"id":124295,"date":"2017-10-16T20:55:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T00:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=124295"},"modified":"2017-10-16T20:55:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T00:55:47","slug":"sarah-polley-speaks-out-about-experience-with-harvey-weinstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/16\/sarah-polley-speaks-out-about-experience-with-harvey-weinstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Polley speaks out about experience with Harvey Weinstein"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Polley’s piece, titled “The Men You Meet Making Movies,” also outlines her observations about the way women are treated on film sets and notes Weinstein “was just one festering pustule in a diseased industry.” (ShutterStock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TORONTO\u2014Canadian film and TV star Sarah Polley says Harvey Weinstein once suggested they have a \u201cclose relationship\u201d in order to advance her career, but she turned him down.<\/p>\n

In an op-ed in the New York Times over the weekend, the Oscar-nominated actress-turned-filmmaker wrote the encounter happened when she was 19 years old and starring in the 1999 Miramax film \u201cGuinevere.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Toronto native says she was doing a photo shoot for the film when the fallen Hollywood producer summoned her into his office.<\/p>\n

When a publicist insisted she accompany the actress to the meeting and assured her she wouldn’t leave her side, Polley says she \u201cknew everything I needed to know in that moment, and I was grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Polley says Weinstein told her if she had a \u201cclose relationship\u201d with him, like the one he had with a famous star a few years her senior, she could have a similarly successful career.<\/p>\n

But Polley told him she wasn’t very ambitious or interested in acting and indicated that he was wasting his time.<\/p>\n

Polley’s piece, titled \u201cThe Men You Meet Making Movies,\u201d also outlines her observations about the way women are treated on film sets and notes Weinstein \u201cwas just one festering pustule in a diseased industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

The op-ed was published as Weinstein faces mounting allegations of sexual harassment and assault in a saga that first broke in the Times.<\/p>\n

Weinstein, who has been fired from the film company he co-founded, has denied through a spokeswoman any allegations of non-consensual contact.<\/p>\n

Polley was nominated for an Oscar for writing 2006’s \u201cAway From Her,\u201d which she also directed. She also wrote and produced the new \u201cAlias Grace\u201d miniseries that’s on CBC-TV and is bound for Netflix.<\/p>\n

Polley declined an interview request from The Canadian Press on Monday.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, on CTV’s Canadian daytime talk show \u201cThe Social\u201d on Monday, actress Lauren Holly alleged she had an encounter with Weinstein in the late 1990s that left her \u201cscared.\u201d<\/p>\n

Holly, who hails from the U.S. but now lives in Toronto, said she went to meet with Weinstein to talk about her career in a hotel room suite.<\/p>\n

During the meeting, Weinstein changed from his suit into a bathrobe and then took a shower while still talking to her, said Holly, who was in the Weinstein film \u201cBeautiful Girls.\u201d<\/p>\n

Holly alleged when he emerged from the shower, he did not put the robe back on and went toward her and suggested they give each other massages.<\/p>\n

She said Weinstein grew angry as she tried to talk her way out of the situation, and eventually she pushed him and ran.<\/p>\n

Holly said when she told a group of influential people in Hollywood about the incident at a dinner that evening, their response was: \u201cDid he touch you? Were you raped?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI said ‘no,\u201d’ Holly recalled, adding that they warned her: \u201c’Then you need to keep your mouth shut, because it’s Harvey Weinstein.\u201d’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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