Tweeden on Franken: ‘When I See Him on TV My Hands Clenches into a Fist Because I Want to Punch Him’

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TWEEDEN: "He's like, 'No, we need to rehearse. Actors have to rehearse their scenes.' I’m like, 'Okay. You go right, I’ll go right, so it’s not awkward,' trying to be funny. And he was like, 'We really need to rehearse.' And it was that sort of — that girl that was miked up for the NYPD for Harvey Weinstein, that one audio that we heard, and it was that persistence and that kind of relentlessness and I was like, 'Okay, we’ll rehearse the damn scene.' We read through the lines and he just sort of comes at me. And in my mind, when that scene came, when we were going to do it I would do the old Bob Hope thing, you know, the older guy and the young girl, I would just sort of turn my head and cover his mouth, just sort of do something funny that would get a laugh from the crowd. And he just sort of comes at me. He puts his hand behind my head. He comes in. It happened so fast. He just comes in and he mashes his mouth against my mouth and sticks his tongue in my mouth. I was so shocked. Of course I was not expecting that at all. That was the last thing I was expecting. I pushed him away from me and I'm like, 'If you ever do that to me again — you know, what are you doing?' And my hand — I even have this reaction when I see him on TV — my hand clenches into a fist because I wanted to punch him."