Kate Beckinsale is responding to fans who are speculating about the “drunk” co-star who was part of one of her negative on-set experiences.
The Underworld actress spoke out in an Instagram video following Blake Lively‘s lawsuit against her It Ends With Us director and co-star over alleged harassment on set.
The first story that Kate told involved a male co-star who was “drunk everyday” on set and how she was referred to as “that c–nt” for speaking up for herself.
“He was going through something. I have sympathy for that, but I was waiting, as was the crew, for six hours a day for him to learn his lines,” Kate said. “It means I’m not getting to see my daughter in the evenings the whole movie. The studio’s response was to give me a bike so I could ride around the studio lot while I was waiting. And then, of course, I was called a c–t and a bitch. During a take I was called a ‘stupid bitch.’”
Fans speculated in the comments that Pearl Harbor‘s Ben Affleck or Total Recall‘s Colin Farrell were the co-star, which she is denying.
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“Ben Affleck protected me on an extremely toxic film set and could not have behaved more respectably,” Kate said. “I am not going to go into any more specific detail on who it was or wasn’t because frankly the most problematic part has actually not been the actors, it has been that reporting a problem or an abuse has resulted in a greater punishment than one could ever imagine.”
“That’s the point – everybody says why didn’t you tell someone well on the whole we have we have told our agents or managers and the head of the studio and this has usually also been witnessed by 30 to 100 people and in one particular incident when the actor was so rough with me that he destroyed part of my costume and ripped my wig in half not to say covered me in bruises, winded me and scared me to death,” Kate continued. “Everybody was incredibly concerned, shut the set down for several hours and was really worried and upset. As soon as I called the head of the studio actually urged by my mother to do so because my instinct was not too …. as soon as I complained about it everything flipped and I was punished, ostracized and could not have wished harder I hadn’t said anything which is just, not right [and] the entire reason I made this video in the first place.”
In response to someone suggesting that she was talking about Colin, Kate responded, “I emphatically am not.”
Read more about Kate‘s on-set horror stories in our original post.
