Hollywood actor Naomie Harris reveals she was groped by a 'huge star'

Academy Award nominated actor Naomie Harris revealed that she was groped by a “huge star” during an audition when she was in her 20s.

The Moonlight actor told The Guardian that the incident happened in front of the casting director and director and both of them did not say anything.

“I was in an audition and he put his hand up my skirt. What was so shocking about it was the casting director was there and the director, and of course no one said anything at all because he was—he is—such a huge star,” she was quoted as saying.

Further, she said she has been protected from misogyny in the movie industry to a certain extend because of her Cambridge education. “I think there is the immediate assumption that you have a brain. Which is not necessarily true if you go to Oxbridge, as I’ve discovered,” she told The Guardian.

She said things are changing now as men know that they cannot get away with things like before because of Time's Up—a movement against sexual harassment by Hollywood celebrities in response to the Weinstein effect and #MeToo.

On the work front, Harris will be next seen in No Time to Die, the 25th instalment in the James Bond series.