Rush’s co-star Robyn Nevin denies telling actress: ‘Oh, I thought Geoffrey had stopped that’

A King Lear co-star and friend of Geoffrey Rush sent a text message to Eryn Jean Norvill the day after The Daily Telegraph’s first story concerning claims of inappropriate behaviour asking how she was and saying “I hope you’ll be protected”, a court has heard.

Geoffrey Rush and Eryn Jean Norvill in Sydney Theatre Company’s production of King Lear

Renowned actress Robyn Nevin also told her to “keep close to friends” while Norvill said to Nevin in reply: “I’m frightened….I never asked for any of this. It’s awful Robyn.”

The text exchanged emerged during the sixth day of Rush’s defamation action The Daily Telegraph publisher, Nationwide News, and its reporter Jonathon Moran.