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.
As one of the leading voices in the Time’s Up movement, Natalie Portman recently shared her thoughts on the organization’s dissipation and what it means for the cause going forward while covering this week’s issue of The Hollywood Reporter.
The Oscar-winner recently covered the mag, highlighting her latest film, “May December”, which is set to premiere at Cannes on May 20.
During the wide-ranging conversation with THR, Portman, 41, was asked about her thoughts on the nonprofit organization Time’s Up, which launched at the 2018 Golden Globes, collapsing amid conflict of interests and internal disagreements over its focus. READ MORE: Natalie Portman Confirms She’s ‘Definitely A Soccer Mom’ As She Cheers On Son’s ‘Ferocious’ Soccer Skills “It was really, really heartbreaking that Time’s Up dissipated the way it did.
I think a lot of people made mistakes, but mistakes are deadly for activism…” said Portman on the near-defunct status of the organization. “For an entire movement to not be allowed to exist because of individual mistakes or even collective mistakes, I think that we have to be able to make mistakes and learn from them and allow that.
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