Court told Geoffrey Rush inappropriately touched actress
SYDNEY, Australia — A lawyer accused Oscar-winning Australian actor Geoffrey Rush in court Monday of touching an actress inappropriately on an Sydney stage three years ago while he was starring in a production of “King Lear.”
Rush is suing Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph newspaper in Federal Court for defamation over articles last year which alleged inappropriate behaviour and touching during the Sydney Theatre Company production in 2015.
The newspaper’s lawyer, Tom Blackburn, told the court on Monday that Rush, now 66, touched an actress who has not been identified on five consecutive nights in the last week of the production in a way that he had not done before and that made her uncomfortable.
“She said stop — he didn’t. He went on doing it. Our case is that that in itself is inappropriate,” Blackburn told the court.