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.
Minnie Driver reveals that Harvey Weinstein tried to have her replaced on Good Will Hunting
dailymail.co.ukShe cemented her rise to fame with 1997's Good Will Hunting, which earned her an Academy Award nomination.But Minnie Driver revealed that her star-making turn almost didn't come to pass after now-disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein objected to her presence in the film.The 52-year-old actress claimed to the Times of London over the weekend that the 70-year-old convicted sex offender said that 'Nobody would want to f*** her' ahead of production.
Traumatizing: Minnie Driver, 52, claimed Harvey Weinstein tried to stop her from being in Good Will Hunting because he didn't think she was attractive enough, according to the Times of London; pictured in NYC in AugustDespite Weinstein's offensive comments, the producers fought for her to remain on the picture, as did Matt Damon, who starred in the lead role and co-wrote the film with his friend and costar Ben Affleck.'I remember feeling so devastated until I realized, "Hold on, just consider the source for a minute.
That is an unutterable pig — why on earth are you worried about this f*** saying that you are not sexy?"' she recalled. She added that she balanced the relief of not being targeted like some of Weinstein's other victims with the knowledge that he could still kneecap her career.'But there are ramifications of that: that maybe I am not going to be hired because people don’t think I have the sexual quality that is required,' she continued. 'How awful to think that I was one of the lucky ones [who escaped him] because he didn’t think I was f***able.
And how amazing and wonderful that it has turned around and young men and women in my industry are not going to experience that.' Cruel: 'Nobody would want to f*** her,' Weinstein reportedly said, which left Driver feeling.
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