Rush touched actress on stage, says King Lear co-star, as expert warns of #MeToo ‘ferocity’

A co-star of Geoffrey Rush and Eryn Jean Norvill has told a court that he saw the veteran actor “cupping” the breast of the actress on stage but that everyone “moved on” from the “strange” incident.

Mark Winter, who played Edgar in the Sydney Theatre Company production of King Lear, said the incident happened in an era “pre #MeToo” and “wasn’t something I dwelled on”.

Mark Winter

Winter, who described himself as a friend of both Rush and Norvill, also told the court of a “Three Stoogey-style skit” during rehearsals that involved people laughing and a “boob-squeeze gesture”.