Actress and director Asia Argento, whose allegations against Harvey Weinstein were one of the initial bombshells in the current wave of the #MeToo movement, gave a blistering speech at the Cannes closing ceremony about the film industry’s role in enabling Weinstein. She was on stage with director and Cannes jury member Ava DuVernay to give out the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress (Samal Yeslyamova won for her performance in Ayka), but Argento skipped the traditional pablum about the magic of acting for a short, personal account of the ways her industry has treated actresses. “In 1997, I was raped by Harvey Weinstein here at Cannes,” Argento bluntly told the audience. “This festival was his hunting ground.” She went on to warn abusers in the crowd, “You know who you are. But most importantly, we know who you are. And we’re not going to let you get away with it any longer.”
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