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.
Salma Hayek is opening up about the aftermath of her 2017 op-ed for The New York Times about her experience with Harvey Weinstein.
In an interview with the Sunday Times, Hayek explained why she didn’t tell friend and “Bandidas” co-star Penélope Cruz would the sexual harassment while filming Weinstein’s film “Frida”. “Some people were very angry at me, like Penélope [Cruz], but I was protecting her,” Hayek said. “I kept my eye on their interaction and he never went for her.
They [Miramax] were making the best movies. She didn’t have my problem, and if I told her it would have affected her choices of things that would have been good for her career.” RELATED: Salma Hayek Opens Up About Starting To Experience Menopause In Her Mid-40s Hayek
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