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 Greatest Supporting Actress, regardless of her lead function in Miramax‘s 2003 movie The Station Agent.
“I hate when actors put themselves in false classes. I feel that’s one thing that must be addressed by the Academy. Too usually it occurs,” she informed Enterprise Insider. “When you find yourself supporting, you ought to be really a supporting participant, and while you’re the lead, you must 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 undoubtedly supporting in that. Katie Holmes is clearly the lead of that movie,” she defined.
“So I went up in opposition to Harvey, and he informed me I’d by no means work once more,” stated Clarkson. “It acquired very ugly.”
Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson and Bobby Cannavale in ‘The Station Agent’ (Miramax/Everett Assortment)
After greater than 80 ladies 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 way of with Harvey. It was nonetheless tough and horrible what he did to me, however in comparison with so many ladies who went by way of a lot extra, it was odd to speak about it,” she stated.
Clarkson portrayed New York Instances editor Rebecca Corbett within the 2022 drama She Stated, 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 function.
In 2020, Weinstein was discovered responsible on one depend every of legal 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 costs in Los Angeles in 2022, receiving one other 16 years.
Together with his New York convictions overturned on account of “egregious errors” on behalf of the choose, his retrial kicked off on April 15. Weinstein is at the moment in custody at Rikers Island.
