"I remember I was sitting at the dinner table with Clive [Owen], and our producers and a friend of mine was sitting with me," she said.

"And he literally came to the table and said to my friend: 'Get up!' And I was like, 'Oh my gosh.' And so my friend got up and moved and Harvey sat down. It was just such a level of gross entitlement and piggish behaviour."

Aniston also told Variety that Weinstein tried to bully her into wearing a dress designed by his then-wife Georgina Chapman to the movie's premiere, but she refused.

After five days of deliberations last month, a jury unanimously agreed that Weinstein was guilty of raping an aspiring actress in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013 and forcibly performing oral sex on another woman, TV and film production assistant Mimi Haleyi, in 2006.

Weinstein was convicted of first-degree sexual assault and third-degree rape.

The first charge carries a sentence of five to 25 years in prison and the second carries a minimum probationary period and a maximum four-year jail term.

Weinstein's lawyer Arthur Aidala told news.com.au his team will appeal the convictions, which he described as "disappointing".

"Harvey was unbelievably stoic and strong and powerful," Aidala said of his client's response to the verdict.

"The words he said over and over again to me is: 'I'm innocent, I'm innocent, I'm innocent. How could this happen in America?'"

A torrent of allegations against Weinstein in October 2017 spawned the #MeToo movement.

In total, more than 100 women have accused the father-of-five of sexual misconduct dating back decades. Most of the accusers, who refer to themselves as "the Silence Breakers", weren't involved in his prosecution. A total of six accusers testified as part of a prosecution effort to show he used the same tactics to victimise many others over the years.

In often emotional testimony stretching over three weeks, Weinstein's accusers described in explicit detail how he lured them to hotels in New York and Los Angeles on the pretence of promoting their acting careers before sexually assaulting them.

In her closing argument, Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon said Weinstein treated the women who accused him like "complete disposables" and made them feel ashamed even though he was the one who was at fault.

"What he wants to do is he wants to get them in a situation where they feel stupid. If you feel stupid and belittled, belittled, stupid people do not complain," the prosecutor told jurors.

His trial was considered a watershed moment for the cause and has been watched closely by #MeToo activists, many of whom doubted for years that Weinstein's alleged mistreatment of women would ever result in legal action.

Following the verdict, Weinstein was being transported by authorities from the courthouse to Rikers, when he suffered heart palpitations and high blood pressure and was taken instead to Bellevue Hospital. He had been holed up in a private hospital room until he underwent heart surgery and was last week transferred to the North Infirmary at Rikers Island prison ahead of his sentencing tomorrow.

Bellevue is known for its psychiatric facility, but it also serves as a hospital for jail inmates.

Weinstein is also scheduled to face trial in Los Angeles, where he is charged with raping one woman and sexually assaulting another in separate incidents in 2013. He has not yet entered a plea in that case.