Rebecca Ferguson, the Swedish actress known for her roles in Mission: Impossible and The Greatest Showman, has spoken about her experience of confronting a “manipulative” male director on set.

Speaking to The Independent, Ferguson described how she had walked off a set with the director before returning to confront him.

She said: “I realised he was very manipulative… He made me think that I was going crazy.

“And I thought, ‘How the f*** did this happen? God, you’re good.

“You’re either very brilliant, or very dangerous.’”

Ferguson said that the director had touched her inappropriately, and that she had hit his hand and told him: “Don’t ever f***ing touch me again.”

Ferguson was promoting her new film, The Kid who Would Be King, in which she plays Morgana, a sorceress seeking to murder a child and enslave England.

Ferguson described the character as “a woman who was born with magic, and was seen as something disgusting and horrendous…because no one understood it.

“She was cast out from her family. Of course she’s dark. Of course she’s lonely.

“Of course she’s self-centred. Because she was never loved!”

Ferguson also praised the #MeToo movement, saying that it had given women the courage to fight battles.

She added: “And yes, some people are gonna have to stand in the line of the bullet for change to happen.

“C’est la vie. It happens.

“And you’re not there for no reason. There’s no smoke without bloody fire.”

The actress said that she hoped her daughter, with whom she was pregnant during the filming of Mission: Impossible – Fallout, would never “think that [harassment] is just how it happens, this is the business”.

Ferguson has two children, including a 12-year-old son.

She said that she had always been honest with him about difficult issues such as sexuality, prostitution and rape.

She said that she was also determined to allow him to cry, stating: “When people say that to their children, I’m not kidding, I want to slap the parents over the face.

“There’s nothing that makes me more pissed off than unfairly treated children.

“Religion as well, when you force that upon your children…”

Ferguson’s comments on the #MeToo movement are in line with those of fellow actors such as Natalie Portman and Emma Thompson.

Portman has argued that #MeToo is a “revolution” rather than a “fashion statement,” while Thompson has described the movement as “long overdue.”

owever, some commentators have expressed concern that #MeToo may lead to a culture of “victimhood” in which women are encouraged to see themselves as powerless.