Harvey Weinstein CBE (born March 19, 1952) is an American former film producer. He and his brother Bob Weinstein co-founded the entertainment company Miramax, which produced several successful independent films, including Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), The Crying Game (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Heavenly Creatures (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), and Shakespeare in Love (1998).
Weinstein won an Academy Award for producing Shakespeare in Love, and garnered seven Tony Awards for a variety of plays and musicals, including The Producers, Billy Elliot the Musical, and August: Osage County. After leaving Miramax, Weinstein and his brother Bob founded The Weinstein Company, a mini-major film studio. He was co-chairman, alongside Bob, from 2005 to 2017.
Winona Ryder Says Some People Were ‘Blatantly Sexually Harassing Me’ as a Young Actor; She Told Jenna Ortega Stories And Thought: ‘That’s F*cked Up’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Winona Ryder said in a new interview with Esquire magazine that she felt blacklisted by Miramax in “the late 1990s and early 2000s” due to “various reasons,” one of which was a meeting with the company’s co-founder Harvey Weinstein that allegedly angered him.
Weinstein ran Miramax until 2005. He is currently in prison for sexual assault. “The one time I was supposed to have a meeting with [Harvey Weinstein], I went to the Miramax office and I extended my hand and he shook my hand and I sat on the couch and we had a conversation and I left,” Ryder said. “And [afterwards] I got like screamed at [by an agent]. ‘What the fuck did you do?’ I was like, ‘What?’ Apparently, I offended him because I extended my hand?… I guess.” Ryder had already worked on a Miramax movie at that point in her career, 1993’s “The House of the Spirits,” and remembered Weinstein pounding on her trailer door during production.
He was allegedly adamant about her starring in a film adaptation of the stage play “Little Voice.” “And I was like, ‘Oh my God, I just saw that in London,’” Ryder said. “I was like, ‘You have to cast that girl [from the play], Jane Horrocks.
She’s fucking amazing.’ And he got very weird and he left.” “He did not like me,” Ryder added. While Ryder did not experience any sexual misconduct at the hands of Weinstein, she did battle sexual harassment as an actor during her twenties and thirties, saying she “had a couple of difficult experiences with a couple of people who were just blatantly sexually harassing me.” “It wasn’t an assault.
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