George Clooney has joined other powerful showbiz voices denouncing producer Harvey Weinsteins alleged sexual misconduct.

Its indefensible , the actor told The Daily Beast on Monday. Thats the only word you can start with.

Weinstein, an Oscar-winning movie executive, preyed on women for decades, settling financially with at least eight who accused him of sexual harassment, according to a New York Times report.

Clooney noted that Weinstein gave him his first big break as an actor in From Dusk Till Dawn, and as a director on Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Clooney insisted he never knew Weinstein was a serial predator.

A lot of people are doing the you had to know thing right now, and yes, if youre asking if I knew that someone who was very powerful had a tendency to hit on young, beautiful women, sure, Clooney said to the Daily Beast. But I had no idea that it had gone to the level of having to pay off eight women for their silence, and that these women were threatened and victimized.