Actress provides statement in Geoffrey Rush case

The actress at the centre of Geoffrey Rush's defamation case against The Daily Telegraph has provided the newspaper with a statement related to alleged "sexual impropriety", a Sydney court has heard.

The newspaper and reporter Jonathon Moran will now attempt to prove a defence of truth when the case likely goes to trial in October - seven weeks later than originally planned.

Rush, 67, is suing the Telegraph's publisher and Moran over articles alleging he behaved inappropriately towards a female colleague -- later revealed in court proceedings to be Eryn Jean Norvill -- during a Sydney Theatre Company production of King Lear in 2015.