Weinstein’s accuser, Ashley Judd, received support from Naomi Judd

Ashley Judd, the first person to speak publicly against convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein, appears alone in the new movie “She Said” about The NY Times bomb a report against a disgraced film mogul.

“I just want to remember, when I spoke to my mother about it, she said,” Go get him, baby “in her sweet way, in a gentle tone… no punishing bone in her body,” Judd told his mother’s crowd. , singing legend Naomi Judd died, at the film’s premiere at the New York Film Festival.

“She was just delighted with my audacity, as I later heard from friends,” said Judd, “who claimed to have been sexually harassed by Weinstein at a hotel in 1997 during the filming of Kiss the Girls.”

The actress, who received a standing ovation when she stepped onto the stage at the Lincoln Center in Manhattan, said the Times report and the #MeToo movement, founded by Tarana Burke, prompted her to reformulate “experiences I had to understand were actually harassment when I previously minimized it. “

Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan star as reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor in a new movie directed by Maria Schrader. The film is based on the duo’s book about their reporting on Weinstein, which was the catalyst for others to come out.

Kazan said there has been some improvement in the movie industry, noting the hiring of “intimacy coordinators” on set, which “has become the industry standard.”

“My first experience with it was very weird in anticipation of it, but then it was like this, wait a minute, I wouldn’t have hit without a stunt coordinator,” Kazan said. “It makes sense … why wasn’t it all the time?”

However, she said there was still a long way to go.

Weinstein’s other accusers were in the crowd, including Lauren O’Connor, who wrote a note to Miramax’s board of directors about Weinstein’s alleged misconduct, and Ambra Battilan Gutierrez, who went to the police after she was mugged in a hotel room by Weinstein in 2015. The Public Prosecutor General did not prosecute).

There is a recording of the actual wiretap that Gutierrez wore during his confrontation with Weinstein.

Weinstein is serving a 23-year sentence for rape and sexual abuse. Currently, he also has to do with the other sex Los Angeles Crime Trial for rape and sexual assault.