The move comes following stunning allegations from dozens of women that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein forced himself on them – including four actresses at Cannes.
The Cannes Film Festival is setting up a hotline so victims can report sexual harassment and abuse during the festival next month.
The move comes following stunning allegations from dozens of women that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein forced himself on them – including four actresses at Cannes.
The French equality minister Marlene Schiappa said Cannes attendees will be warned about their behavior when they arrive at the world’s biggest film festival.
“We have set up a partnership with the Cannes film festival to tackle sexual harassment,” Schiappa told Agence France-Presse Thursday. “One of the rapes that Harvey Weinstein is accused of happened at Cannes, and so the festival cannot not act.”
Schiappa was referring to Italian actress Asia Argento, who has accused the once-powerful film producer of raping her in his luxury hotel suite in 1997, when she was 21.
“When I see him, it makes me feel little and stupid and weak,” she said in October. “After the rape, he won.”
Schiappa said the hotline was put in place to not just protect actresses but all women in the film industry.
With Post wires
