The 'Sopranos' actress alleges Weinstein raped her in the 1990s.
In perhaps the most chilling moment of the morning's testimony, Sciorra rose and scanned the courtroom after being asked to identify Weinstein. She extended her hand in his direction and described what he was wearing: a black jacket, white shirt and white tie.
In an effort to help her friend Warren Light and the Naked Angel Theater Company, she sent a script for"The Night We Never Met," which had been written for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, to Weinstein. The producer asked for a reading, so they hosted one, with Sciorra reading for Parker's role as Parker could not make the reading.Weinstein insisted Sciorra play Parker's part, the actress said, despite Sciorra's protestations.
"I went upstairs and got ready for bed," she said."I washed my face brushed my teeth and I put on a nightgown." "I was punching him, I was kicking him, I was just trying to get him away from me," Sciorra said, crying, but with her hands"locked" by him, she"couldn't fight any more." "I confronted him about what happened in my apartment. I tried to talk to him about what happened. And I told him I woke up and that I had blacked out or fainted, and he said, 'That's what all the nice Catholic girls say.' And then he leaned into me and said, 'This remains between you and I,'" Sciorra said."It was very menacing -- his eyes were black, and I thought he was going to hit me right there. He was threatening and I was afraid.
Sciorra also said under questioning that she had not asked the doorman why he let Weinstein up without announcing him, determined whether there were cameras in the building, determined whether Weinstein signed in downstairs, or complained to the board about someone being let up to her apartment without notice.MORE: Harvey Weinstein charged with rape, other sex crimes: LA district attorney
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