‘It was terrifying’: Blake Lively shares her experience of...

Blake Lively is the latest actress to lift the veil on sexual harassment in the movie industry, opening up about her own ‘terrifying’ experience.

Blake – who is mum to two-year-old James, and one-year-old Ines – shared a disturbing story regarding a male makeup artist she worked with on a film production.

She told The Los Angeles Times: “He was saying things inappropriately, insisting on putting my lipstick on with his finger.

“I was sleeping one night on location, and I woke up and he was filming me. I was clothed, but it was a very voyeuristic, terrifying thing to do.”

As if the experience itself wasn’t traumatic enough, Blake was left deeply frustrated by the response when she complained the individual to the movie’s producers.

The issue was totally ignored until Blake got her lawyers involved, and the makeup artist was eventually removed from the project following an investigation.

“Our unit production manager wrote him a letter of recommendation because nobody wanted there to be bad blood,” she added.

Blake’s revelation comes at a time when more and more Hollywood stars are coming forward to share their stories, in the midst of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.

Earlier this week, Kate Beckinsale revealed that Weinstein made advances when she was just 17 years old.

“I was incredibly naïve and young, and it did not cross my mind that this older, unattractive man would expect me to have any sexual interest in him,” the mum-of-one recalled, on Instagram.

I was called to meet Harvey Weinstein at the Savoy Hotel when I was 17. I assumed it would be in a conference room which was very common.When I arrived ,reception told me to go to his room . He opened the door in his bathrobe . I was incredibly naive and young and it did not cross my mind that this older ,unattractive man would expect me to have any sexual interest in him .After declining alcohol and announcing that I had school in the morning I left ,uneasy but unscathed.A few years later he asked me if he had tried anything with me in that first meeting .I realized he couldn't remember if he had assaulted me or not .I had what I thought were boundaries - I said no to him professionally many times over the years-some of which ended up with him screaming at me calling me a cunt and making threats, some of which made him laughingly tell people oh "Kate lives to say no to me ." It speaks to the status quo in this business that I was aware that standing up for myself and saying no to things,while it did allow me to feel uncompromised in myself,undoubtedly harmed my career and was never something I felt supported by anyone other than my family.I would like to applaud the women who have come forward , and to pledge that we can from this create a new paradigm where producers,managers,executives and assistants and everyone who has in the past shrugged and said " well, that's just Harvey /Mr X/insert name here " will realize that we in numbers can affect real change.For every moment like this there have been thousands where a vulnerable person has confided outrageous unprofessional behavior and found they have no recourse, due to an atmosphere of fear that it seems almost everyone has been living in .I had a male friend who, based on my experience,warned a young actress who said she was going to dinner with Harvey to be careful. He received a phone call the next day saying he would never work in another Miramax film ;the girl was already sleeping with Harvey and had told him that my friend had warned her off.Let's stop allowing our young women to be sexual cannon fodder,and let's remember that Harvey is an emblem of a system that is sick,and that we have work to do.

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“After declining alcohol and announcing that I had school in the morning, I left – uneasy, but unscathed.

“A few years later, he asked me if he had tried anything with me in that first meeting. I realised he couldn’t remember if he had assaulted me or not.”

She added that she had ‘said no to him professionally many times over the years’, a move which prompted him to ‘make threats’ towards her.

Weinstein has been fired from his production company, as other celebrities – including Rose McGowan, Ashley Judd and Asia Argento – emerge with claims of assault against him.