The Game of Thrones actress says she met Weinstein at the 2005 Venice Film Festival, while starring in the film The Brothers Grimm. Starring opposite Heath Ledger and Matt Damon, the movie was directed by Terry Gilliam – who Headey says subjected her to “endless bullying”.

“At one point Harvey asked me to take a walk down to the water, I walked down with him and he stopped and made some suggestive comment, a gesture,” Headey shared on Twitter yesterday (Tuesday 17 October).

She says she was shocked but attempted to laugh it off with a joke, but added: “I was never in any other Miramax film.”

Harvey, and his brother Bob, both founded Miramax in 1979, which has since produced many popular films such as Pulp Fiction and Good Will Hunting to Shakespeare In Love.

However, despite believing the situation ended there, Headey says there was a second incident that left her feeling “completely powerless”.

Saying she “always carried the thought that he’d never try anything with me again, not after I’d laughed and said never in a million years”, she goes on to recount how years later, in LA, Weinstein asked to meet her for breakfast: “Maybe he wanted to talk about potential work.”

Game of Thrones’ Lena Headey shares shocking sexual harassment story