Uma Thurman Speaks Out About Harvey Weinstein, Quentin Tarantino

Uma Thurman was asked if she had anything to say about the sexual misconduct allegations coming to light in the film industry at the premiere of her Broadway play "A Parisian Woman" in October. Thurman's suppressed anger was visible as she responded and she said she would speak when her anger lessens.

On Thanksgiving, the actress posted a photo to Instagram in which she called out Harvey Weinstein and all his "wicked conspirators." The photo was from Thurman's movie "Kill Bill" from the scene where her character is driving to kill the person who's hurt her, Bill.

"I said I was angry recently, and I have a few reasons, #metoo, in case you couldn’t tell by the look on my face," Thurman's caption read.

Thurman finally opened up about Weinstein and director Quentin Tarantino in an interview with Maureen Dowd of The New York Times that was published Saturday.

Thurman told Dowd she knew Weinstein "pretty well before he attacked me," saying she got to know him in the "afterglow of Pulp Fiction," which was released in 1994. She recounted a meeting at a hotel room in Paris where Weinstein made her follow him down a series of corridors into a steam room. Thurman says she was wearing a full black leather outfit and she asked him what he was doing. She described Weinsten, who was wearing a bathrobe, getting flustered and mad and running out.

Thurman told the Times Weinstein attacked her not long after that in his suite at the Savoy Hotel in London.

“It was such a bat to the head," she told the Times. "He pushed me down. He tried to shove himself on me. He tried to expose himself. He did all kinds of unpleasant things. But he didn’t actually put his back into it and force me. You’re like an animal wriggling away, like a lizard. I was doing anything I could to get the train back on the track. My track. Not his track.”

When Thurman confronted Weinstein the next day, he reportedly threatened to derail her career, according to the account published in The Times.

Through a representative, Weinstein said in a statement to the Times that up until the incident in Paris, the two had “a flirtatious and fun working relationship.” He denied threatening to derail her career.

“Mr. Weinstein acknowledges making a pass at Ms. Thurman in England after misreading her signals in Paris,” the statement said. “He immediately apologized.”

In a statement provided to The Hollywood Reporter and other media outlets, Weinstein denied physically assaulting Thurman.

Though she continued to work with Weinstein, Thurman said she privately regarded the producer as an enemy.

"This is the first time we are hearing that she considered Mr. Weinstein an enemy and the pictures of their history tell a completely different story," the statement from Weinstein said.

When Thurman was filming Kill Bill, directed by Tarantino and produced by Weinstein, she told the Times that in the scene where she's driving to kill Bill, she was asked to do the driving herself. She said she insisted a stunt person to do the driving because she didn't feel comfortable. She said Tarantino didn't like to hear no and assured her the car was fine and that it was a straight road, according to the interview with the Times.

A video of Thurman driving the car posted by the Times shows her struggling with the car before crashing into a tree.

“The steering wheel was at my belly and my legs were jammed under me,” she said. “I felt this searing pain and thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m never going to walk again.’”

Thurman said she accused Tarantino of trying to kill her, which made him angry. She said it took her 15 years to obtain the video of the crash and she was in a fight with Tarantino for years because he wouldn't let her see the footage.

Weinstein has been accused by multiple women of varying degrees of sexual misconduct. The New York Times and The New Yorker published detailed accounts last October from numerous women who said the powerful producer had leveraged his stance in Hollywood against women.

You can read the full New York Times interview here.

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