Geoffrey Rush trial

[davidc4430]

Geoffrey Rush trial: Actress Eryn Norvill says she felt 'belittled' by sexual gestures

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-30/geoffrey-rush-court-battle-hears-from-eryn-norvill/10445542

i really dont see what the young woman hopes to acheive by this, her carreer if she had one is prolly dead.

i dont think you can place acting into the same area you  would most other jobs as far as where the 'line' is between ok behaviour and not ok behaviour.

in acting you can be required to be anying from a rocket scientist to a prostitute.

you can be asked to talk like you know how to fly the apollo moon lander or strip naked and 'pretend' your having sex with your husband or a complete stranger.

so getting 'uncomfotable' with a co-worker 'touching' you seems kinda hard to swallow.

i cant think of any 'normal' jobs where you would be required to do the shyte actors do.

so shes destroyed the reputation of one of the highest regarded actors of our times for what?

because she felt uncomfortable?

or did she just get caught up in the 'me too' typhoon and found herself too involved to get out?

she sure has fame but as to ever acting again i think she will find it difficult.

[imastawka]

You need to separate your sex scenes in movies to what the actual play in question

is all about.

Geoffrey Rush plays King Lear and the actress in question plays his daughter Cordelia.

There would be no sex scenes involving those 2 characters.

Having said that, Rush is required to pick her up and walk across the stage cradling her.

Then lay her back down and grieve over her body.

No mean feat for a man his age, I would say.

Maybe the hand did stray, but was he sleazy in off/on stage behaviour?    Dunno

Rush is not on trial.

He is suing the paper for ruining his reputation.

[*kazumi*]

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@imastawka wrote:
 

Having said that, Rush is required to pick her up and walk across the stage cradling her.

Then lay her back down and grieve over her body.

No mean feat for a man his age, I would say.

 

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Exactly, and through all this he has to act for the despair of losing his favorite daughter to reflect on his face.  It's an extremely demanding acting where he is centre of attention.  I find it ludicrous that he would be in that moment thinking about fidling with her breast.  Could his hand brush against her boob as he is craddling her?  Of-course it could.  I watched the scene several times on TV in close up.
 https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/courts-law/stars-arrive-to-testify-in-highprofile-rush-defa...

Here are pictures from this and other productions
 https://www.google.com/search?q=rush+as+king+lear+with+cordelia&client=firefox-b&tbm=isch&source=lnm...

[imastawka]

The video of the scene is on this link -

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/courts-law/stars-arrive-to-testify-in-highprofile-rush-defa...

[*kazumi*]

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@imastawka wrote:

Geoffrey Rush plays King Lear and the actress in question plays his daughter Cordelia.

There would be no sex scenes involving those 2 characters.

 

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Yes, but as King Lear is blind, he is "looking" with his hands.  There seemed to be lots of near touching and tracing of hands over Cordelia. 

[imastawka]

King Lear is metaphorically blind to the truth about his children.

But yes, Rush 'shadowed' the shape of her body with his hands in the scene.

The judge has rejected the Daily Telegraph's Witness X

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/judge-rejects-daily-telegraphs-bid-to-call-witness-x-in-rus...

[the_great_she_elephant]

If The Telegraph did not know of witness x when they published the articles over which Rush is suing them I cn't see how that person's evidence could be relevant.. Surely the paper can  only base its defence  (that the articles were true) on the knowledge they had at the time they published - not stuff that might come to light afterwards.

[lyndal1838]

I read that the mystery witness only had information about GR's behaviour in another production, not the production of King Lear that is in question.

[louiscoco35]

Oh dear who can you believe in an over media saturated society!