In 2011, Jeremy Irons courted controversy when he was reported to have said in a radio interview: "If a man puts his hand on a woman's bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can't we be friendly?"
Now though, in an interview with The Times, he is claiming that he was misquoted.
"I love touching, I always touch people," Irons told the newspaper in his defence.
"I don't think I said 'bottom' [in the Radio Times interview] but of course I was misquoted. Basically, I said that any self-respecting woman would tell you to *beep* off [if she minded].
Irons maintains he was misquoted in the bottoms comment.
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