Got your back: Uma Thurman is being flooded with supportive posts
Uma Thurman is being flooded with supportive posts after the actress came out against Harvey Weinstein almost two months after The New York Times and New Yorker published exposes detailing his decades of sexual misconduct.
Among those praising the actress were two other Weinstein accusers, with Gwyneth Paltrow and Rose McGowan both posting the fist emoji in a sign of solidarity with Thurman.
McGowan later posted on Instagram as well, sharing a video of herself waving and writing: ‘Hello Uma. Welcome’
Selma Blair, Amanda de Cadenet and the actress’ Beautiful Girls co-star Rosie O’Donnell also voiced their ‘love’ for Thurman while Amber Tamblyn tweeted: ‘All eyes on Uma Thurman. Trust me.’
Just days before Thurman’s blistering post went live, Deadline reported that the actress had parted ways with Creative Artists Agency after two years with the firm.
No reason was given for the actress’ unceremonious split, and Thurman has yet to sign with another agency.
It is not the first time CAA has made its way into a Weinstein story, with both Paltrow and Courtney Love making mention of the firm in the past.
Paltrow said she felt comfortable going to Weinstein’s hotel room for a private meeting because she assumed it was in fact an meeting, not an opportunity for the disgraced exec to try and lure her into giving him a nude massage or watching him shower.
‘It’s on the fax, it’s from C.A.A,’ she said of the meeting details.
Solidarity: Among those praising the actress were two other Weinstein accusers including Gwyneth Paltrow (pictured with Weinstein)
‘Welcome’: Rose McGowan (pictured with Weinstein) later posted on Instagram as well, sharing a video of herself waving and writing: ‘Hello Uma. Welcome’
And after a 2005 video of Love surfaced advising young woman not to take meetings in Weinstein’s hotel room, she provided an update to the story on Twitter.
‘Although I wasn’t one of his victims, I was eternally banned by CAA for speaking out against #Harvey Weinstein #rape,’ wrote Love.
Thurman, who is currently appearing on Broadway in The Parisian Woman, made a point of not speaking about any of her own personal experiences with Weinstein or any other possible predators when asked about the exec’s sex scandal back in October.
‘I don’t have a tidy soundbite for you, because I am not a child and I have learned that when I have spoken in anger, I usually regret the way I express myself, the actress and mother-of-three told Access Hollywood.
‘So I’ve been waiting to feel less angry, and when I’m ready, I’ll say what I have to say.’
On Thursday, Thurman was ready to share her soundbite – and there was plenty of fury.
‘I am grateful today, to be alive, for all those I love, and for all those who have the courage to stand up for others,’ wrote Thurman.
‘I said I was angry recently, and I have a few reasons, #metoo, in case you couldn’t tell by the look on my face.’
Gwyneth Paltrow and Rose McGowan both posted the fist emoji in a sign of solidarity with Thurman
She then wrote: ‘I feel it’s important to take your time, be fair, be exact, so… Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! (Except you Harvey, and all your wicked conspirators – I’m glad it’s going slowly – you don’t deserve a bullet)’
The actress then signed off by telling everyone to ‘stay tuned.’
Alongside the photo she posted a still from the movie Kill Bill Vol. 2, which was directed by Quentin Tarantino one of the last titles produced by Weinstein at Miramax.
The still is from the opening of the second film, with Thurman’s character the Bride having successfully killed the three assassins who murdered her (or so they thought) and her husband at the church on their wedding day.
She is left at that point with just one more person to kill, their leader Bill.
‘Looked dead, didn’t I? Well, I wasn’t, but it wasn’t for lack of trying I can tell you that,’ says Thurman while looking directly at the camera.
‘Actually, Bill’s last bullet put me in a coma, a coma I was to lie in for four years. When I woke up, I went on what the movie advertisements referred to as a roaring rampage of revenge. I roared and I rampaged and I got bloody satisfaction.’
She continues: ‘I’ve killed a hell of a lot of people to get to this point. But I have only one more. The last one, the one I’m driving to right now. The only one left. And when I arrive at my destination, I am gonna kill Bill.’
That film starred another woman who came forward to revealed she was a victim of Weinstein, Daryl Hannah.
All eyes on her: Actress Amber Tamblyn tweeted: ‘All eyes on Uma Thurman. Trust me’
Supportive: Amanda de Cadenet wrote: ‘Love and support to you @ithurman’
Amen: Selma Blair was another famous name to come out and support the Kill Bill actress
The actress also noted that it was while promoting Kill Bill Vol. 2 that the alleged misconduct occurred with Weinstein, saying that when she refused his advances while they were in Rome she was booted from the press trip as the cast traveled to Cannes.
Hannah said that Weinstein at one point burst into her hotel room in Rome, telling the New Yorker in an interview: ‘And I know with every fibre of my being that if my male makeup artist was not in that room, things would not have gone well. It was scary.’
Later that night he asked to feel or at least see one of her breasts, which she refused over and over again claims Hannah.
The next morning she said she found out she had been kicked off the trip, and said she called Tarantino personally to complain.
Tarantino has since said he regrets not speaking out earlier about Weinstein, adding that while he did not know the full extent of his offenses that is no excuse.