Thandie Newton, seen here in the 2004 film Crash, says she was sexually abused by a director.
Thandie Newton says she was sexually abused by a director in one of her first film roles - and she hopes speaking out stops it from happening to someone else.
The British star of films like Mission: Impossible II and Crash and upcoming HBO show Westworld told W
Magazine the incident happened at the beginning of her career.
She said an unnamed director asked her to do things which she thought were "weird" - and years later she found out he'd shown the footage to others.
"A director, on a callback, had a camera shooting up my skirt and asked me to touch my tits and think about the guy making love to me in the scene.
"I thought, 'Okay, this is a little weird,' but there was a female casting director in the room and I'd done weird stuff before so I did it," she said.
