Weinstein unequivocally denies any allegations of nonconsensual sex.” Ms. McGowan’s lawyer, Paul Coggins, confirmed that Ms. McGowan received the offer. If not a time of celebration, this moment could be perceived as a moment of vindication for Ms. McGowan. “She put her arms around me.”But in the months to come, Ms. McGowan did not feel supported by her management team. Maddie Corman, an actress who befriended Ms. McGowan in the mid-90s, perceived a change in Ms. McGowan after the 1997 episode (she says she was aware of the settlement, but could not recall if she learned it directly from Ms. McGowan or from others). As the film critic David Edelstein put it in New York, Ms. McGowan played “the ultimate abused-and-fetishized action-movie femme.” The experience, Ms. McGowan said, left her shattered.

Source: New York Times October 28, 2017 18:56 UTC