Overview
- This week Headey told The Telegraph she was sexually harassed by Harvey Weinstein at the Venice Film Festival and again later when he invited her to his hotel, and she said Hollywood has long shielded powerful predatory men.
- She said she was ‘shocked by the anger’ when Game of Thrones fans attacked her for using a body double and CGI for Cersei’s Season 5 walk of shame and that some people called her less of an actress for refusing to perform full nudity.
- Headey described how early in her career young actresses were pushed into ‘ingenue’ parts that expected sex scenes and nudity, and said her later experience let her set firmer boundaries on Thrones.
- Her new BBC Radio 4 drama, Intimacy, which she wrote and stars in, follows an intimacy coordinator who uncovers abuse of power on a film set and uses fiction to examine consent and on-set safety.
- Headey praised increased savvy among younger performers and the wider use of intimacy coordinators but warned public policing of actors’ bodies and lingering protection of powerful men mean further cultural and procedural change is still needed.