Women stand up for Casey Affleck

Two women who worked with Casey Affleck have questioned the validity of two sexual harassment suits recently filed against the actor/director.

Cinematographer Magdalena Gorka and producer Amanda White are both suing Affleck for sexual harassment. Both worked on his Joaquin Phoenix documentary I'm Still Here.

Nicole Acacio, who was also employed on the film, said that she never witnessed Affleck harass workers on or off the set.

"I never saw anything out of the ordinary either on or off set, and certainly nothing like what they described in [these lawsuits]," Acacio told the New York Post.

She added: "The real Casey isn't the one who was described in these suits. Nothing I've ever witnessed would lead me to think he could ever do anything like that."

Another woman, who chose to remain anonymous, further spoke out against the claims, saying: "These lawsuits are contrary to everything that I personally know about Casey."

A spokesperson for Affleck recently branded the second lawsuit "absolute fiction".