After a star-studded trial, Oscar winning actor Geoffrey Rush will learn the outcome of his defamation case in a federal court on Thursday.
The Oscar winner is suing Nationwide News and Jonathon Moran over two articles and a newspaper poster published by the Daily Telegraph in late 2017.Justice Michael Wigney will hand down his judgment on Thursday afternoon, some five months after he reserved his decision following a highly publicised hearing.toward a co-star, later revealed to be Eryn Jean Norvill, during a Sydney Theatre Company production of King Lear in 2015-16.
Mr Rush denies the allegation and says Nationwide News and Mr Moran made him out to be a pervert and sexual predator.Nationwide News denies conveying those imputations but if found to have done so, is arguing they're substantially true after Ms Norvill, who didn't participate in the articles, agreed to testify at least year's trial. Mr Rush deliberately stroked the side of her breast while her character was dead onstage.
Other allegations included that he touched Ms Norvill's lower back backstage, made groping gestures toward her during rehearsal and would sometimes growl and call her yummy.Mr Rush said it was possible he used the word yummy, which had"a spirit to it", but otherwise denied the claims, saying that he thought he and Ms Norvill had enjoyed a"very sparky, congenial rapport".
He said it was devastating and he felt sick to his stomach when he saw The Daily Telegraph's first front-page article about the allegation of inappropriate behaviour.
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