Hollywood heavyweights Matt Damon and George Clooney have spoken out against Harvey Weinstein, calling the producer a "bully".
The two movie stars addressed the sexual abuse allegations against the producer while promoting their movie Suburbicon.
"When people say like, 'Everybody know,' like, yeah," Damon told US ABC.
"I knew he was…a womaniser. I wouldn’t want to be married to the guy.
"But…the criminal sexual predation is not something that ever thought…was going on. Absolutely not."
Clooney says Weinstein had boosted about his affairs with other actress but he never believed him.
"I didn't really think that they were having affairs with Harvey, quite honestly. And clearly they didn't," Clooney says.
"But the idea that this predator, this assaulter…was out there silencing women like that it's beyond infuriating."
Damon, who worked closely with Weinstein on movies such as Good Will Hunting, says working with the Weinstein was "intimidating".
"You had to spend about five minutes with him to know that he was a bully."
Damon admitted he knew about the incident between Gwyneth Paltrow and Harvey Weinstein.
"I never talked to Gwyneth about it. Ben told me…but I knew that…they had come to whatever, you know, agreement or understand that they had come to, she had handled it.
"She was, you know, the first lady of Miramax. And he treated her incredibly respectfully."
Clooney says the scale of sexual harassment not just in Hollywood but in business has come as a "surprise to some".
"Many, if not most, women have at some point in their life faced this kind of behaviour. I think that's a little bit of a surprise to some of us. That it's this big."
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