The British actress Kate Beckinsale has described a career-long litany of abusive behaviour towards her, including sexual harassment and being assaulted by male actors who “get a kind of thrill out of legally being able to harm a woman during a fight sequence”.
Beckinsale said that mistreatment of women in the film world “had been going on forever” as she catalogued her experiences in response to the toxic dispute that has erupted between the actress Blake Lively and the director Justin Baldoni.
In a lengthy Instagram video, Beckinsale outlined experiences including being “felt up by somebody that I really trusted on a crew” as a teenager entering the industry to being ostracised after complaining about a drunken male co-star.
Beckinsale in 1995, aged 21
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Beckinsale, 51, claimed that after being