She’s an Academy Award-winning actress who has been vocal about her dismay for fallen movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.
And Kate Winslet, 42, recently talked to the Hollywood Reporter about working with the disgraced producer – who has been accused of sexually harassing more than 80 women during a 30-year period – on several movies.
The Collateral Beauty actress said Weinstein labeled her as ‘difficult’ because she refused to be ‘bullied by him.’
Taking a stand: Kate Winslet, 42, recently opened up about working with the disgraced producer – who has been accused of sexually harassing more than 80 women during a 30-year period – on several movies; seen in 2009
‘He was just so horrible to deal with,’ Kate said. ‘I was one of the ones he would label “difficult” because I wouldn’t do the things he would ask for me to do on a business-level.
‘These were ridiculous requests … He didn’t like me because I wouldn’t be bullied by him.’
Kate scored her first movie role in Heavenly Creatures in 1994, which was distributed by Weinstein’s company Miramax, and the beauty said Weinstein was adamant he ‘gave’ her the movie role.
Throwback: The Collateral Beauty actress said Weinstein labeled her as ‘difficult’ because she refused to be ‘bullied by him’; seen in 1999
‘He would come up to me every time I saw him, “Don’t forget who gave you your first movie!” Kate said. ‘He didn’t “give me” my first movie – I auditioned for four months.
‘Peter Jackson gave me the part. But, you know, how dare he even sow that seed in my mind, that in some way any part of my career had anything to do with him rooting for me or pushing for me or putting my name forward.’
Kate also worked with the producer’s Weinstein Company in 2008 for the movie The Reader for which she won her first Oscar.
Past: Kate also worked with the producer’s Weinstein Company in 2008 movie The Reader for which she won her first Oscar; seen in 2004
No thank you: The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind stunner said she made a conscious decision not to thank Weinstein in her Oscar-winning speech; seen in December
The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind stunner said she made a conscious decision not to thank Weinstein in her speech.
‘I just thought to myself, “Well, if I can just get my own back in some way at this awful man, I’m not gonna thank him. If I happen to win that Oscar [for The Reader], I am not going to say thank you,”‘ she shared.
Weinstein has been accused of multiple counts of sexual harassment, assault and rape during the last few months.
He has denied all allegations of non-consensual sex and has rarely been seen in public since October.
Since the Weinstein allegations surfaced thanks to bombshell reports in The New York Times and The New Yorker, hundreds of women and a handful of men have come forward to make similar accusations against powerful figures in Hollywood, the media, politics, sports, and other industries.
Difficult: Weinstein has been accused of multiple counts of sexual harassment, assault and rape during the last few months; seen in 2009