Kate Beckinsale reveals multiple instances of on-set mistreatment over Hollywood career

Kate Beckinsale has spoken out about being mistreated and assaulted on multiple Hollywood sets over her lengthy career in light of Blake Lively’s bombshell allegations.

Kate Beckinsale has alleged multiple instances of assault and neglect from co-workers over the course of her decades-long Hollywood career.

The British actress, 51, shared an almost five-minute long Instagram video, which has since been deleted, revealing her own stories of mistreatment in light of Blake Lively’s bombshell allegations against her It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni.

The Pearl Harbor star spoke to how she had several times been “gaslit” into feeling like the problem when she aired concerns of poor behaviour, adding she had “47 million” stories of this nature.

“I was actually, at the age of 18, felt up by somebody that I really trusted on a crew,” Beckinsale said.

“[I] went to the lead actress, who is known for being a supporter of women, and said, ‘This has happened’, and was told, ‘No it didn’t’.

“I went to another actress, and said, crying, ‘I’ve just been assaulted by this man’, again, ‘No you haven’t been’.”

Kate Beckinsale shared a five-minute video detailing mistreatment on sets over the years.

The actress said she had “47 million” stories. Picture: Daniele Venturelli/Getty Images for The Summer Gala by Gala One

Beckinsale, who made her feature film debut in 1993’s Much Ado About Nothing, also claimed she had been “harmed” by a male co-star during a violent scene for an unnamed film.

“There’s a certain kind of actor who gets a kind of a thrill out of sort of being able to legally harm a woman during a fight sequence,” she said.

“I was harmed to the point where there were MRIs proving it.

“I was gaslit and made to feel like I was the problem, blamed and ostracised, left out of cast dinners, not spoken to, as soon as I mentioned that there was a problem.

“I’ve been on a film, for example, where I was, by the end of it, referred to over the walkie-talkie, and to my face, as ‘that c**t’ because I had said, ‘I’m finding it very difficult, my co-star is drunk every day, and he’s obviously going through something and I have full sympathy for that but I am also waiting — as is the whole crew — six hours a day for him to learn his lines.’”

Beckinsale made her film debut in 1993. Picture: Valery HACHE / AFP

The star shot to fame in 2001’s Pearl Harbor.

Elsewhere, the Underworld actress said, at one point, she was “forced” by a publicist to follow through with a glamorous photo shoot one day after she suffered a miscarriage.

“And I said, ‘I can’t, I’m bleeding, I don’t want to go and change my clothes in front of people I don’t know and do a photo shoot, I’m bleeding out a miscarriage,’” Beckinsale recalled.

“And she [the publicist] was like, ‘You have to, or you’ll be sued.’”

Conceding she’d never met Lively, 37, or Baldoni, 40, Beckinsale said their ongoing legal saga “highlighted this machine that goes into effect when a woman complains about something legitimately offensive.”

Justin Baldoni is embroiled in a legal battle with co-star Blake Lively. Picture: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Vital Voices Global Partnership

Lively launched legal action last month. Picture: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images via AFP

“What’s really depressing is I see a lot of men going around saying, ‘Oh, it was very different a while ago, you know, the climate is do different and it’s so much better’ … It f***ing isn’t,” she continued.

“If you’re a woman and you have a legitimate complaint, not, ‘I don’t have enough baby llamas in my trailer and I’d like more of a lion’, but ‘Somebody’s touching my boobs’, or ‘Calling me a c***’, or ‘Calling me a b**ch’, or whatever, you’re f***ed. On the whole, you’re f***ed. If you mention it, you’re f***ed.

“It’s supposed to be that you absorb it and somehow then, you’re somehow the homie.

“That has to stop, that has to stop. I’m grateful to Blake Lively for highlighting the fact that this is not an archaic problem that no one’s facing, this is continuing.”

In a lengthy caption on her post, Beckinsale also wrote, “Complaining about abuse should not beget more abuse, particularly at work where there should be inviolable safeguarding in place.

“And it should not be expected of women who have been harmed, insulted, hurt, shamed or in any other way abused (mostly with at least 100 witnesses) to have to be ‘one of the boys’ and take it on the chin or face retribution for having been abused in the first place.

“There are far too many casualties of this, many of whom I know personally.

“It really falls to both men and women in our industry to be part of stamping this out for good.”