Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

by Ronan Farrow

Weinstein came out, naked and with an erection. He demanded that she lie on the bed and told her that many other women had done so before her. “I was very petrified,” de Caunes said. “But I didn’t want to show him that I was petrified, because I could feel that the more I was freaking out, the more he was excited.” She added, “It was like a hunter with a wild animal. The fear turns him on.” De Caunes told Weinstein that she was leaving. He panicked. “We haven’t done anything!” she remembered him saying. “It’s like being in a Walt Disney movie!” De Caunes told me, “I looked at him and I said—it took all my courage, but I said, ‘I’ve always hated Walt Disney movies.’ And then I left. I slammed the door.”