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Peter Jackson admits blacklisting actresses after receiving false information about them from Harvey Weinstein
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DIRECTOR PETER JACKSON has admitted that he had previously blacklisted Mira Sorvino and Ashley Judd after receiving instruction to do so from Harvey Weinstein in the 1990s.
When Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy was first put into development, it was under Weinstein’s Miramax company. It later moved to New Line Cinema. Jackson told New Zealand entertainment website Stuff that he had considered casting Sorvino and Judd in the Lord of the Rings movies.
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With the hindsight he has now, he realises exactly what happened.
Jackson also said that both Harvey and his brother Bob were actually particularly difficult to work with.
Weinstein’s name was included in the credits of Lord of the Rings for contractual reasons, despite the fact he did not work on the trilogy. Jackson says it has been 20 years since he has interacted with Harvey Weinstein.
Mira Sorvino took to Twitter to express the pain she felt when she found out about this.
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She tweeted:
It is quite heartbreaking to think of Sorvino (and all of the other actresses who have been treated similarly) second-guessing their talent when work dried up after they attempted to stand up to Weinstein when nobody was listening.
This year Sorvino opened up to The New Yorker in October about her Weinstein experience.
She says that he tried to give her a massage, before chasing her around a hotel room at the Toronto Film Festival in 1995. Weeks later, Weinstein called her after midnight and showed up at her apartment unexpectedly. He did not leave until she lied and said that her boyfriend was on the way over.
In that same piece, Sorvino said that she thinks rejecting Weinstein had affected her career.
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