Actor Robert Lindsay has claimed he was blacklisted for Shakespeare in Love after a run-in with Harvey Weinstein

His co-star in Weinstein-produced rom-com 'Strike it Rich', Molly Ringwald, claimed Mr Weinstein over-sexualised her role and made her perform lines which weren't in the script.

She implied in the New Yorker that her partnership with Robert Lindsay protected her from Mr Weinstein's worst impulses.

Mr Lindsay said that this "halted" his film career.

He wrote: "And yes she’s right and because I confronted him he basically halted my film career.