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 Actress Salma Hayek Says Rebuffing Weinstein Led To nightmarish On ‘Frida’

NEW YORK (AP) — In one of the most vibrant accounts up till now of Harvey Weinstein’s suspected abuse and harassment, Salma Hayek says the shamed movie tycoon twisted the making of her 2002 enthusiastic project, the Frida Kahlo biopic “Frida,” into a nightmare after the actress refused Weinstein’s unyielding advances.

“Since years, he was my monster,” Hayek told in an op-ed published Wednesday by The New York Times.

Her refusals — of massages, showers and sex — infuriated him, she wrote. “I don’t think he loathed anything more than the word ‘no,'” wrote Hayek.

Hayek, who frequently starred in movies released by Weinstein’s Miramax in the 1990s, credited Weinstein with serving her start her career. But she said that the movie tycoon would turn up at her entrance “at all hours of the night, hotel after hotel, location after location.”

When Hayek brought “Frida,” which she was producing, to Miramax to dispense, Weinstein made disgraceful demands as compensation. Hayek said he insisted on rewrites, more financing and, most heinously to her, a sex scene with full-frontal nudity. He even threatened to kill her, she said.

In order to end what was a work of love for Hayek, she agreed. But she said she had a worried crash while murdering the scene. “My body wouldn’t prevent lament and convulsing,” wrote Hayek.

“It was not because I would be nude with a different woman,” she wrote. “It was for the reason that I would be nude with her for Harvey Weinstein.”

Even still, Weinstein originally refused to give the film a dramatic release. He ultimately relented after stress from principal Julie Taymor and Hayek. It went on to gross $56.3 million widespread and land six Oscar nominations, captivating two.

In a declaration through a speaker Wednesday, Weinstein deprived of Hayek’s portrayal of their liaison and said the battles on “Frida” were “creative friction.”

“All of the sexual allegations as portrayed by Salma are not correct and others who witnessed the proceedings have a dissimilar account of what transpired,” said the declaration.

“Mr. Weinstein does not remember pressuring Salma to do a unnecessary sex scene with a female costar and he was not there for the filming,” read the declaration. “on the other hand, that was part of the story, as Frida Kahlo was bisexual and the more important sex scene in the movie was choreographed by Ms. Hayek with Geoffrey Rush.”

Dozens of women have accused Weinstein of sexual nuisance, and plentiful women have said he raped them. Weinstein, who is at present below investigation for sexual attack in four cities, has deprived of all allegations of nonconsensual sex.

“Why do so many of us, as female artists, have to go to conflict to tell our stories when we have so much to propose? Why do we have in the direction of clash tooth and nail to uphold our self-respect?” finished Hayek in her op-ed. “I think it is because we, as women, have been devalued creatively to an offensive state, to the point where the movie industry stopped up construction an attempt to find out what female audiences required to see and what stories we required to notify.”