Miriam Margoles repeats claims Arnold Schwarzenegger was inappropriate

Miriam Margolyes has accused Arnold Schwarzenegger of inappropriate behaviour on the set of their 1999 film End of Days.

The Harry Potter star, 81, previously made the same allegations to The Guardian in 2016, and repeated them during a radio interview on Tuesday.

She is the only person from the cast to have publicly made these claims, and they have not been corroborated by any other individuals on set.

Schwarzenegger, 74, has not specifically addressed Margolyes’ claims, but previously called accusations of inappropriate conduct ‘not true’ after six women spoke to the Los Angeles Times in 2003 about their experience working with him.

At the time of these allegations, the former champion-bodybuilder-turned-actor was the front-runner in the California gubernatorial recall election.

Miriam Margolyes (left) has accused Arnold Schwarzenegger (right) of inappropriate behaviour on the set of their 1999 film End of Days 

Margolyes was asked about her experience working with Schwarzenegger on The Kyle and Jackie O Show, following her recent claims he ‘farted in her face’ on set. 

She said she hated filming with Schwarzenegger, saying: ‘No I didn’t enjoy it at all. I thought he was full of himself and [inappropriate].’

‘Not [with] me, thankfully, but anybody else that was young and pretty, he felt they were fair game. That was what it was like then,’ she added.

The Harry Potter star, 81, previously made the same allegations to The Guardian in 2016, and repeated them during a radio interview on Tuesday 

Schwarzenegger, 74, has not specifically addressed Margolyes’ claims, but previously called accusations of inappropriate conduct ‘not true’ after six women spoke to the Los Angeles Times in 2003 about their experience working with him 

It wasn’t the first time Margolyes had accused Schwarzenegger of inappropriate behaviour on the set of End of Days.

In 2016, she labelled the former governor of California ‘a pig of a man’, telling The Guardian: ‘Although he was relatively professional with me – because he didn’t like me – he was awfully [inappropriate] with women he was interested in.’

‘He thought a lot of himself, but I wasn’t surprised: he was a bodybuilder from Austria who went on to became a worldwide star,’ she continued.

Schwarzenegger has not responded to Margolyes’ 2016 allegations, nor has anyone from the 1999 film corroborated her claims.

It’s not the first time Margolyes (pictured in November 2021) has accused Schwarzenegger of inappropriate behaviour on the set of End of Days

Schwarzenegger once admitted he ‘behaved badly sometimes’ while working as an actor, but insisted ‘a lot of’ the claims made against him were untrue.

In 2003, the Los Angeles Times published an interview with six women who claimed Schwarzenegger had inappropriately touched them without their consent.

The women alleged that one incident took place in 1970s, two in the 1980s, two in the 1990s and one in 2000.

In 2016, she labelled the former governor of California ‘a pig of a man’, telling The Guardian : ‘Although he was relatively professional with me – because he didn’t like me – he was awfully [inappropriate] with women he was interested in.’ (Pictured on August 5, 2016, in London)

After the story was released, Schwarzenegger, who was campaigning for governor of California at the time, acknowledged he had sometimes ‘behaved badly’ on set. 

‘It is true that I was on rowdy movie sets and I have done things that were not right which I thought then was playful,’ he said at a campaign rally. 

‘But now I recognise that I offended people. Those people that I have offended, I want to say to them I am deeply sorry about that and I apologise because that’s not what I’m trying to do.’

Schwarzenegger insisted that ‘a lot of the stuff in the [LA Times] story is not true’.

He later said in 2018 he ‘stepped over the line several times’ with women during his film career and felt ‘bad about it’.

Margolyes made headlines last week when she claimed Schwarzenegger (pictured in October 2019) passed wind in her face while the pair were filming End of Days  

‘Looking back, I stepped over the line several times, and I was the first one to say sorry. I feel bad about it, and I apologise,’ he told Men’s Health. 

‘When I became governor, I wanted to make sure that no one, including me, ever makes this mistake.

‘That’s why we took sexual harassment courses, to have a clear understanding, from a legal point of view and also from a regular-behavior point of view, of what is accepted and what is not.’

Daily Mail Australia has contacted Schwarzenegger’s representatives for comment. 

Margolyes made headlines last week when she claimed Schwarzenegger passed wind in her face while the pair were filming End of Days.

‘Schwarzenegger, didn’t care for him. He’s a bit too full of himself,’ Miriam said on the I’ve Got News For You podcast.

‘He was actually quite rude. He farted in my face. Now, I fart, of course I do, but I don’t fart in people’s faces. He did it deliberately, right in my face,’ he said.

Margolyes went on to say the incident took place when the pair were filming End of Days in Los Angeles.

‘I was playing Satan’s sister and [his character] was killing me, so he had me in a position where I couldn’t escape, lying on the floor. And he just farted,’ she said.

‘It wasn’t on film, it was in one of the pauses, but I haven’t forgiven him for it.’

Margolyes had previously spoken of the farting incident in an interview Readers Digest.

‘I got my throat slit with a glass table at the end [of the film], and I remember Schwarzenegger farting right in my face as I lay on the floor trying not to move,’ she told the publication, adding: ‘I shouted: ‘F**k you, Arnie!’ I was very angry.’ 

‘He was actually quite rude. He farted in my face. Now, I fart, of course I do, but I don’t fart in people’s faces. He did it deliberately, right in my face,’ she alleged  

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