Survivor Stories

Jane Seymour recently appeared on Sky News' Sunrise morning show, where she recounted an experience that happened to her early in her career. Here's what happened, as excerpted from Page Six:

"Quinn told the program she’d been invited to the home of a “major producer” who was interested in having her star in his film. When she arrived, in what has become an all-too familiar story, she said she expected to see other people there, but there was no one.

After telling her she was perfect for his movie, Seymour recalled he said,  “‘I’ve done my bit and now it’s your turn to do your bit’ … ‘No, no, you know what you have to do.’ And I’m going, ‘No I don’t.’ And he put his hand on my thigh, way up high.”

The actress says “being British, I crossed my legs and scooted down the couch until I had no couch left. I had no option but to stand up and say, “Please get me home.”


Seymour says the producer was the most powerful man in Hollywood at the time, and he threatened her, saying, “If you ever tell anyone that his happened or that you were even here in my house.” When she told him people knew she was there, he replied. “You have to lie. The old, ‘You’ll never work in this town again.’ He had that power.” She said the incident stopped her from working as an actress for a year."

Jessica Chastain has been very vocal in supporting all of the actors and actresses that have spoken out about sexual harassment and abuse in Hollywood. Recently, she spoke out about the producer of her new film, Bryan Singer, by tweeting a link to an article detailing his sexual abuses with the caption "let us not forget." Here's what she had to say to The Daily Beast:

“Because of the timing of when I came into the industry, I decided for me—my career could go away tomorrow, and I’ll do something else, and I’ll be okay. Because I was okay before I came into this career. For me, there’s a lot that I have that isn’t acting. I made a decision very early on to not work with people that I felt abused their positions, and didn’t create a healthy environment for those around them.

I actually chose to do X-Men because I’m working with Simon Kinberg, who’s also a first-time filmmaker who I met on The Martian, and is an incredible writer and producer. He wrote this script—which I can’t say much about, because it’s X-Men—and there are many powerful female roles in this story that Simon is telling. And all of my dealings were with Simon and Hutch [Parker, another producer], who were on set.


I do not feel beholden to anything. I’m going to speak my mind about any injustice that I see. I’m not afraid of anything in terms of that. And I think the greatest myth that an industry can create is to make people feel like they’re easily replaceable. I’m not going to allow that into my life.”

Ronan Farrow recently wrote a follow-up piece for the New Yorker about how the Harvey Weinstein article got published, and the extreme lengths that Weinstein went to in an attempt to quash the article. Read it in full here.