The actor on speaking out against the film mogul’s bullying in 2003, the cost to her career and why she has stayed quiet over #MeToo
2003 feels like a long time ago. But Samantha Morton remembers it well. She was supposed to star in the Terry Gilliam film The Brothers Grimm, and yet she didn’t. The reasons were not the kind openly discussed in the film business of the 00s. But Morton discussed them. She talked publicly about the fact Harvey Weinstein had ordered Gilliam not to cast her. His reasoning was alleged to have been that men would apparently not “want to fuck that”. Morton talked about Weinstein and the episode to journalists. She talked to her peers. She told a newspaper six other women later refused to star in the film.
“I just remember thinking, it’s a shame you behave this way. You’re older than me, you have this vast power. But if someone is bullying you, you have to do something, don’t you?” She pauses as if a thought had just struck her. “Maybe I was the first person to publicly answer him back.”
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