Greater than 20 years later, Patricia Clarkson is recounting her unlucky expertise with Harvey Weinstein.
The Oscar nominee defined that the disgraced producer tried to submit her on the 76th Academy Awards for Finest Supporting Actress, regardless of her lead position in Miramax‘s 2003 movie The Station Agent.
“I hate when actors put themselves in false classes. I believe that’s one thing that must be addressed by the Academy. Too usually it occurs,” she advised Business Insider. “If you end up supporting, you need to be actually a supporting participant, and whenever you’re the lead, it’s a must to step up and go right into a more durable class. I used to be the lead in Station Agent, so I stated, ‘No, Harvey, I’m not going into supporting.’”
That very same 12 months, she obtained a Supporting Actress nod for her efficiency within the United Artists movie Items of April. “I’m positively supporting in that. Katie Holmes is clearly the lead of that movie,” she defined.
“So I went up in opposition to Harvey, and he advised me I’d by no means work once more,” stated Clarkson, including: “It bought very ugly.”
Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson and Bobby Cannavale in ‘The Station Agent’ (2003) (Miramax/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
After greater than 80 girls have come ahead with sexual harassment, assault or rape allegations in opposition to Weinstein since 2017, Clarkson acknowledged that her incident was far much less extreme, which is why she not often addresses it.
“This was patter to me, what I went by with Harvey. It was nonetheless tough and horrible what he did to me, however in comparison with so many ladies who went by a lot extra, it was odd to speak about it,” she stated.
Clarkson portrayed New York Occasions editor Rebecca Corbett within the 2022 drama She Mentioned, in regards to the investigation that uncovered Weinstein’s years of misconduct. “In fact it was a motivation,” she stated of their interplay inspiring her to take the position.
In 2020, Weinstein was discovered responsible on one depend every of prison sexual assault within the first diploma and rape within the third diploma, sentenced to 23 years in jail. He was discovered responsible of three extra fees in Los Angeles in 2022, receiving one other 16 years.
Together with his New York convictions overturned as a result of “egregious errors” on behalf of the choose, his retrial kicked off on April 15. Weinstein is at the moment in custody at Rikers.
