Actress Rose McGowan shared a photo from her 1998 Miramax film “Phantoms” to Twitter, saying cryptically that she was filming the project “when it happened.”
While it’s unclear what she’s referring to, for the last week, McGowan has used the social platform to accuse producer Harvey Weinstein of raping her in 1997.
“This is the movie I was filming when it happened. I played a 16 year old,” McGowan wrote on Monday with a still from the film. Actress Joanna Going (“Mad Men”) appears with her in the image.
“Phantoms” was directed by Joe Chappelle and starred Ben Affleck, who McGowan told to “f— off” last week shortly after the actor shared his disgust a flood of accusations of abuse lodged against Weinstein by the stars of his movies, staffers and other women.
Also starring Peter O’Toole and Liev Schreiber, “Phantoms” followed a snowy mountain town possessed by an evil spirit. It was produced by Miramax and distributed by its imprint Dimension Films in ’98, when The Walt Disney Company owned both.
Reps for Dimension Films did not immediately return TheWrap’s request for comment. TheWrap tweeted McGowan for clarity.
McGowan has previously said that Weinstein attacked her in a hotel room at the Sundance Film Festival in 1997, and subsequently reached a financial settlement to resolve the issue. “Phantoms” hit theaters the following year.
Last week, Weinstein was fired from The Weinstein Company and is under criminal investigation in New York and London after several women came forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct, including harassment and rape.
A representative for Weinstein has stated, “Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr. Weinstein. Mr. Weinstein has further confirmed that there were never any acts of retaliation against any women for refusing his advances.”
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