The piece, written by a female reporter who interviewed Toback at the Venice Film Festival, was titled “James Toback Gets Us, He Truly Gets Us in ‘The Private Life of a Modern Woman.’” Blair tweeted the story with a single word in response: “Ironic.” In the days that followed, Blair, who has appeared in films such as Cruel Intentions, Legally Blonde, and Hellboy, learned about a group of women on social media who claimed to have been sexually harassed by the director (Two Girls and a Guy) and Oscar-nominated writer (Bugsy). James Toback: the film-maker accused of being a sexual predator Read more 
 
 Blair, 45, decided to speak out about her experience with Toback after last week’s Los Angeles Times report, which compiled testimony from 38 different women who alleged they had been sexual harassed by the 72-year-old. Photograph: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images 
 
 McAdams, who was 21 at the time of her encounter with Toback, said she was invited to audition at his hotel in Toronto. When reports of Toback’s alleged harassment began pouring in, both Blair and McAdams were motivated to speak out. I want to bring as much awareness to this harassment as possible because I want Toback to be held accountable.” Toback denied the allegations to the Los Angeles Times, claiming that he had never met any of the then-38 accusers or, if he did, the meetings were very brief. “When he called these women liars, and said he didn’t recall meeting them and that the behavior alleged could not be attributed to him, I just felt rage and an obligation to speak publicly now,” Blair said. Blair’s team said Toback would only meet in his hotel room; Blair insisted that they meet in the hotel restaurant. Her experience with Toback took place in 1999 during a meeting to discuss his film Harvard Man, which he had written but not yet cast. While waiting for him, a hostess approached Blair and told her Toback would not be coming down but that he had requested she join him in his hotel room. “Against my better judgment, I went upstairs,” Blair told the magazine. Toback declined Vanity Fair’s request for comment on Blair and McAdams’s allegations. “Pretty quickly the conversation turned quite sexual and he said, ‘You know, I just have to tell you. When he asked her to have sex with him, Blair refused, but Toback insisted she let him pleasure himself in front of her and said: “You cannot leave until I have release.” 
 
 She continued: “He walked me back to the bed. He sat me down. He got on his knees. And he continued to press so hard against my leg. He was greasy and I had to look into those big brown eyes. I tried to look away, but he would hold my face. So I was forced to look into his eyes. And I felt disgust and shame, and like nobody would ever think of me as being clean again after being this close to the devil. His energy was so sinister.” 
 
 
 
 Blair claims that Toback intimidated her into keeping quiet about their interaction by threatening her life. After he finished, he told me, “There is a girl who went against me. “She was going to talk about something I did. I am going to tell you, and this is a promise, if she ever tells anybody, no matter how much time she thinks went by, I have people who will pull up in a car, kidnap her, and throw her in the Hudson River with cement blocks on her feet. You understand what I’m talking about, right?” He looked at me with those bug eyes that had just raped my leg. “I was very lucky that I left and he didn’t actually physically assault me in any way,” she said.
– Selma Blair and Rachel McAdams have come forward to join more than 200 other women accusing director James Toback of sexual harassment. In a disturbing account to Vanity Fair, Blair says Toback lured her to a hotel room in 1999 and, after she refused to have sex with him, insisted on pleasuring himself by rubbing himself against her leg. She says he then apparently threatened her life, telling her that there had been a girl who went against him, and: "I am going to tell you, and this is a promise, if she ever tells anybody, no matter how much time she thinks went by, I have people who will pull up in a car, kidnap her, and throw her in the Hudson River with cement blocks on her feet. You understand what I'm talking about, right?" Blair says was scared for her life then and still is, but she came forward out of "pure rage" after Toback called other accusers liars. Rachel McAdams tells Vanity Fair that when she was 21, the director told her a visit to his hotel room would be her only chance to discuss her audition for Harvard Man. She says after she arrived, Toback told her he had "masturbated countless times" thinking about her that day and asked to see her pubic hair. "I was very lucky that I left and he didn't actually physically assault me in any way," she says. The Guardian reports that on Wednesday, Julianne Moore tweeted that in the '80s, Toback had approached her "with the same language" he used with other women, asking her to come back to his apartment for an audition.