An actress told a court Wednesday that Noel Clarke demanded she look at him as he exposed himself after filming a sex scene in the latest round of evidence in the actor’s libel lawsuit against The Guardian.
The actress, named Penelope to hide her identity, claims Clarke also made inappropriate remarks about her appearance and sexual advances towards her. Clarke has denied all the allegations.
Penelope claimed in her statement that after filming a sex scene, Clarke cleared the room of all production staff and then exposed himself, insisting that she looked at his penis.
“He was saying things like, ‘it’s massive, everyone’s told me it’s big’ and that ‘you have to look, you want to look at it, look at it’,” PA reported. “It wasn’t even a question of whether I wanted to. He was demanding it.”
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Penelope added, per PA’s reporting, that she felt “panicked and shocked” and “was begging Noel to bring the crew back into the room.”
“I was saying, ‘Please, stop, they’ll hear you, bring them back in’. I felt disgusted, shocked, and frightened and retreated into myself.”
The Guardian reported a separate section from Penelope’s statement where she claims the writer-actor made unwanted sexual contact with her while shooting the sex scene.
“He was on top of me in the bed,” she said. “When he first took down his trousers and pants, I felt his penis land on my pubic area. I tried to move myself up in the bed slightly so there would be distance between our genitals, but then his penis was touching me in between my legs right at the entry of my vagina.”
She added: “He was so close that I recall being worried in case he moved in further or ejaculated. I don’t remember how many takes we did of this scene, in the various camera angles. There may have been four or five takes in each angle. His erect penis remained touching me in the same place throughout all of these takes.”
According to PA, in his statement, Clarke denied all of Penelope’s allegations, saying “at no point did I, nor could I have, dismissed the crew” or “demand” that she look at his penis.
“The only purpose of any exposure or nudity was for artistic effect,” his statement said.
Clarke is suing The Guardian over multiple articles it published in which he was accused of various incidents of misconduct by 20 women between 2004 and 2019.
The actor, producer, and director, best known for work such as Kidulthood and its two follow-up movies, has denied all of the allegations and said the articles have had a “catastrophic” effect on his career.
Clarke is said to be looking for damages of around $12m (£10m) in the defamation suit. Alongside claiming general damages for reputational harm, Clarke is looking for damages that cover specific financial losses. Clarke’s claim says The Guardian’s articles had a “devastating” impact on his finances, according to the BBC, with the actor claiming “every existing or upcoming contract” he had was canceled following The Guardian’s reports.
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