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“No, the good news is I scared everyone,” replied Lewis when questioned whether she was ever subject to predatory advances.
Juliette Lewis
US actress Juliette Lewis told a masterclass at Turkey’s Antalya International Film Festival on Sunday that she had never been subject to sexual predatory behaviour during her career, joking she was too scary.
Lewis had told press agents that the topic of the disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein and the resulting backlash against a culture of sexual predatory behaviour in Hollywood was off-limits.
But she agreed to answer a question on the issue during a public Q&A at the end of the masterclass, when asked by a local journalist whether she had ever been the victim of such behaviour.
“No, the good news is I scared everyone. Even at 15 people thought I might blow their head off. That’s a good power to have,” quipped the Natural Born Killers star, adding: “I’m kidding.”
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