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.
Jennifer Aniston is ‘so over’ cancel culture: ‘Is there no redemption?’
nypost.combe more done with cancel culture?In a new interview with WSJ Magazine, Jennifer Aniston, 54, says she refuses to hold people who make mistakes in the same regard as former Hollywood mogul and convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein, 71. “I’m so over cancel culture,” the “Morning Show” star told the outlet. “I probably just got canceled by saying that.
I just don’t understand what it means. … Is there no redemption? I don’t know. I don’t put everybody in the Harvey Weinstein basket.”The “Friends” starlet and the disgraced producer worked together on the “Derailed” movie in 2005.
Aniston is not one of the 80-plus women in the film industry who have accused Weinstein of sexual abuse, but she does admit she never looked forward to spending time with him. “He’s not a guy, you’re like, ‘God, I can’t wait to hang out with Harvey.’ Never,” Aniston said. “You were actually like, ‘Oh, God, OK, suck it up.'”She continued: “I remember actually, he came to visit me on a movie to pitch me a movie.
And I do remember consciously having a person stay in my trailer.”The Post has contacted reps for Aniston for comment.The Post received a lengthy statement from Weinstein via his rep following Aniston’s comments.“I had an excellent professional relationship with Jennifer Aniston on the making of ‘Derailed,'” begins the statement “From Harvey.”“If I was creepy, or if I had made her uncomfortable, she would have told her manager, agent, or director who would have handled something like that.
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