In an interview published in the New York Times on Thursday, director Quentin Tarantino admitted he’s been hearing for decades about Harvey Weinstein’s alleged pattern of sexual misconduct towards women. Despite this, he continued to collaborate with Weinstein on multiple films and hasn’t spoken publicly about what he knew until now.
“I knew enough to do more than I did,” Tarantino told the Times. “There was more to it than just the normal rumors, the normal gossip. It wasn’t secondhand. I knew he did a couple of these things.”
The Pulp Fiction director knew, for instance, that a former girlfriend of his, Mira Sorvino, had alleged Weinstein sexually harassed her, because she told him about it herself. He heard a similar story from a different actress years later and knew about Rose McGowan’s settlement with Weinstein, too. Tarantino admitted that if he’d been a responsible, decent person at the time he, “would have had to not work with him.”
Weinstein and Tarantino partnered as producer and director on a slew of influential projects, including Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds, and the Kill Bill movies.
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Victoria’s Secret model Sara Sampaio alleged in an Instagram post on Thursday that she she never consented to be photographed nude on the fall cover of men’s magazine Lui, and that the photo violates her “no nudity” contract.
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- Shade to the side. [Page Six]