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 shares she was ‘repressed’ by Harvey Weinstein; Recalls asking ‘How come I didn’t have courage?’
pinkvilla.comActress Salma Hayek recently spoke to InStyle and opened up about the entertainment industry and life in the limelight. During her chat, the 54-year-old actress also spoke about the disgraced filmmaker Harvey Weinstein.
She said: “Some people got raped. It makes you wonder if you had said something [back then], would it have been different? How come I didn’t have the courage?
But I dealt with it to the best of my ability at the time…for me Frida was a political statement, a social statement, a feminist statement.
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