The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> from the infamous Rikers Island prison. <\/p>\nThe disgraced movie mogul first addressed claims made by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson that Weinstein once demanded he recast Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino, alleging they were both \u201ca nightmare\u201d. <\/p>\n
However, the actresses later alleged that his claims of their poor behaviour were fabricated by Weinstein after they rejected his sexual advances. <\/p>\n
\u201cPeter Jackson is the worst,\u201d moaned Weinstein in the new interview. \u201cFor him it\u2019s personal. He still resented me over what happened with [Miramax and] Lord of the Rings.\u201d<\/p>\n
Weinstein famously wanted to condense the Lord of the Rings movies into two films, and fought with Jackson until he took the project to New Line cinema instead.<\/p>\n
The director also infamously modelled an orc after Weinstein as a \u201cmiddle finger\u201d to him in the films. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo as soon as he sees I\u2019m down, he says that I ordered him not to work with Ashley Judd or Mira Sorvino. It\u2019s a complete f**king lie.\u201d<\/p>\n
Weinstein went on to insist that claims made by Judd and Sorvino that he destroyed their careers in Hollywood \u201cnever, ever happened\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe truth is, I fought on my last breath to cast Ashley Judd in Good Will Hunting. I fought like a bastard to get her cast. But Gus and Matt insisted on Minnie Driver, and that was the end of that. And when Mira Sorvino\u2019s husband needed a part in a TV show, I got another actor removed and put him in. The truth is, to retaliate against these women I would have needed the co-operation of the agencies. Call Ari Emanuel! Call Bryan Lourd! It never, ever, ever happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the interview, Weinstein opened up about his former friendship with Gwyneth Paltrow, and shared how devastated he was when she spoke out against him publicly and accused him of in appropriate behaviour. <\/p>\n
Because she was a good friend of mine,\u201d he said when asked why Paltrow\u2019s comments left a particularly hurtful sting. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what drove her to do what she did. To make such a big deal over nothing. I walked out of a nice meeting with her and said, \u2018How about a massage?\u2019 And she just went, \u2018No, I don\u2019t think so.\u2019 I got the message. I never put my hands on her. She told Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt came to me and said, \u2018Don\u2019t do anything like that with my girl.\u2019 I said, \u2018Don\u2019t worry, Brad. I got it.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cBut then Gwyneth goes on Howard Stern and The New York Times and makes a big deal about it all. She knows that nothing happened. But this person who was a friend, who owes her career to me, just stabs me in the back. She wanted to be part of the crowd. \u201c<\/p>\n
\u201cI won\u2019t forgive her for that,\u201d added the disgraced mogul. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harvey Weinstein has slammed an array of famous Hollywood stars including Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and New Zealander…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-529210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}