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.
Graham Norton has named Harvey Weinstein as the "worst-ever" guest to appear on his talk show. During a recent conversation in Dublin, Ireland to promote his new book Forever Home, the TV host was asked about his least favourite guest, and he didn't hesitate to select disgraced producer Weinstein, who appeared on an episode alongside David Tennant, Olivia Colman, and Jessie J in 2007. "I often talk around who my least favourite guest was, but now, someone reminded me, I have a really good answer to this now.
It's Harvey Weinstein. He's in jail, so he gets the prize for the worst guest ever," he said, according to JOE. "And actually, it was weird, because he asked for my email.
And he emailed me something very nice, a complimentary thing. And then, he decided he wanted to be on the show because he was going to promote something. "Norton went on to recall how Weinstein wouldn't take no for an answer. "At the time, I thought that sort of attitude, that kind of, 'Oh no, I'm going on', that is what makes you a very good producer," the 59-year-old continued. "But of course, now that we know what we know, that is what makes him a predator.
It was that kind of weird, tunnel-vision thing. And it was sort of chilling in retrospect because I was just laughing at those emails.
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