Sienna Miller has revealed she called Harvey Weinstein “Pops” and continues to insist that he never sexually propositioned her.
The British star worked with the disgraced producer on films, including ”Factory Girl,” where she played Andy Warhol’s muse, Edie Sedgwick.
Weinstein had heralded Miller as the “next big thing,” but the actress told The Daily Telegraph that the only difficult experience she had was when he yelled at her.
Miller said she had first met Weinstein’s ex-wife Georgina Chapman in London before they married.
The mom of one, who now lives with her daughter, Marlowe, in New York, said: “It’s really complicated to talk about this carefully.
“I called Harvey ‘Pops’ from day one. Probably because on some level I sensed that that [other side of him] existed and it was a way of deflecting whatever I felt. And it did, and that was lucky. I’d go, ‘Oi Pops, give us a job’, and he’d go, ‘Ah, stappit.’”
She added: “I had known his wife, Georgina, from before they were married, from when we were in London. And had never had that kind of experience, thank God. I mean, I was yelled at, but that was just Harvey, you know, you’d just brush it off … He did scream at men as well.
“But I was very fortunate that no one ever propositioned me for work with sex — and if they had, I would probably have slapped them.”
She admitted: “But it’s not that easy. I know that you couldn’t say no to Harvey if he asked you to do something. For me, it would be, like, an extra week of press, so I imagine in a situation where it’s sexual, it would also be hard to say no, and that’s crushing.”
Miller, who plays a blue-collar, single mom in her new film, “American Woman,” has previously been cautious about speaking about Weinstein, claiming: “I’m aware that I have the power to say one thing about somebody and that’s pretty much it for them. And that scares me.”
Weinstein is set to go on trial on Jan. 6 on five charges, including rape and sexual assault. Page Six reported this week that he lost his court fight to take the trial out of Manhattan, citing the “circus-like” media atmosphere in the city.