Rose McGowan is claiming that Amazon optioned a television series from her only to kill it soon after when she voiced concern about a possible move the company was making to bailout Weinstein.
‘I told the head of your studio that HW raped me. Over & over I said it. He said it hadn’t been proven. I said I was the proof,’ said McGowan on Thursday in a tweet directed at company founder Jeff Bezos.
‘I had already sold a script I wrote to your studio, it was in development. When I heard a Weinstein bailout was in the works.’
She then added: ‘I forcefully begged studio head to do the right thing. I was ignored. Deal was done. Amazon won a dirty Oscar.’
That ‘dirty Oscar’ seems to be a reference to Casey Affleck’s Best Actor win for ‘Manchester by the Sea’ earlier this year, an award that Ben’s younger brother took home despite two women accusing him of sexual harassment.
McGowan did not identify Casey by name, but the only other Oscars that Amazon has won are the Best Original Screenplay award for Kenneth Lonergan and Best Foreign Language Film for the Iranian drama ‘The Salesman.’
Amazon said that the studio was ‘reviewing our options for the projects we have with The Weinstein Company’ earlier this week.
McGowan also did not name the executive she was referencing in her Twitter thread.
The deal between herself and Amazon was never confirmed, but in June 2016 Amazon Studios head Roy Price did post a photo of himself with McGowan.
‘You come talking that trash we’ll pull your card. Tough face contest lost to @rosemcgowan #eazye #rosearmy,’ wrote Price.
He is now finding himself at the mercy of the #rosearmy himself after the actress’ tweets.
‘I called my attorney & said I want to get my script back, but before I could, #2 @amazonstudios called to say my show was dead,’ claimed McGowan.
‘I am calling on you to stop funding rapists, alleged pedos and sexual harassers. I love @amazonstudios but there is rot in Hollywood.’