Harvey Weinstein's retrial on rape and sexual assault charges got underway on April 23, as a prosecutor and a defense lawyer offered starkly contrasting explanations for the disgraced movie mogul's encounters with women who hoped to make it big in Hollywood.

Harvey Weinstein's retrial started with opening statements on Wednesday in New York City, five years after the original trial was a catalyst in the #MeToo movement.The 73-year-old disgraced movie mogul is being retried on a criminal sex act charge for allegedly forcibly performing oral sex on a production assistant at her apartment in 2006,

"The defendant wanted their bodies, and the more they resisted, the more forceful he got," ADA Shannon Lucey said in her opening statement