‘I wasn’t hot enough’: Thandie Newton claims the Time’s Up movement didn’t want her participation

Thandie Newton has revealed that the Time’s Up campaign didn’t want her participation, claiming she “wasn’t hot enough.”

The Westworld actress has spoken out about how she wasn’t including in the campaign, which was set up in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.

Newton told how she found it “very painful” that she was not included in the movement because she had previously been “ostracised” for speaking out about allegedly being assaulted by a casting director.

She told Australia’s Daily Telegraph: “I wasn't hot enough. I wasn’t mainstream enough and I wasn’t going to be at the Oscars this year, even though I am having a renaissance in my career.”

Speaking about the alleged harassment in W magazine she explained: “He had a camera shooting up my skirt.

“[He] asked me to touch my t*** and think about the guy making love to me in the scene.

“I thought, ‘OK, this is a little weird,’ but there was a female casting director in the room and I’d done weird stuff before so I did it.”

The 45-year-old followed Westworld co-star Evan Rachel Woods in discussing the fact that she is set to get equal pay to her male co-stars in the new season of the show.

She told Vanity Fair: “They’re all happening right now, and yeah, we’re all equal across the board.

“It’s really exciting. It’s unprecedented. It’s — goodness; it shatters so much calcified pain, resentment, frustration. It just shatters it.”

HBO executive Casey Bloy said: “We just finished our process where we went through and made sure that there were no inappropriate disparities in pay.

“Where there were, if we found any, we corrected it going forward.”