Geoffrey Rush quizzed over ‘panting’ emoji as actor rejects ‘pervert’ allegations
The Daily Telegraph’s legal team has probed Geoffrey Rush over a text he sent to actress Eryn Jean Norvill in which he said he thought of her “more than is socially appropriate”, accompanied by an emoji with a tongue hanging out.
Act 5 Scene 3 of King Lear: Lear (Rush) grieves over the dead body of his daughter Cordelia (Norvill)
Cross examining the actor, Tom Blackburn SC, suggested Rush was “testing the water” with the message demonstrating he was “attracted” to Norvill.
The text was sent in June 2016, six months after Norvill appeared alongside Rush in King Lear where he is alleged to have engaged in “inappropriate behaviour”.
What is the world coming to when we are questioning bloody emojis?
Is it now a crime to be attracted to someone and to make your interests known via a text message? Or is it only a crime if the perpetrator is person of means? I’m confused, I get knocked back all the time, should I be worried?
This man is a national treasure and should probably be knighted. Leave him alone, PC Brigade.
It was the Daily that went after him. That’s why he is during. PC is the last thing on their minds.
This is a defamation case. Not a sexual allegation case. He is taking the Daily to court. And they will try their hardest to make him look bad. So calm your farm with the freaking out of the emoji stuff. Someone made a complaint against him to his employer (not because he sent an emoji) and that’s where she was hoping it was going to stay. By the Daily are ruthless. Whether he did anything or not he can still sue the Daily.