Michael Apted, a filmmaker known for female-empowerment dramas, is defending himself against an accusation of sexual assault with a 33-year-old calendar. Film executive Rhonda Talbot told TheWrap that in 1985, the “Coal Miner’s Daughter” director invited her to his hotel room in Paris to look at some photos. There, she said, he took off his clothes, pinned her to the bed and tried to rape her. She said she only escaped by kneeing him in the groin. Also Read: Michael Apted to Receive DGA's Honorary Life Member Award “He chased me out the door, still naked, saying: ‘Stop resisting! Stop resisting!,” she...
- 2/21/2018
- by Itay Hod and Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
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