As he stands retrial on a number of expenses of rape, stemming from accusations of misconduct from dozens of ladies, Harvey Weinstein sat with right-wing provocateur Candace Owens, who has been a voice of unlikely sympathy for the convicted legal. Weinstein engaged along with her in a wide-ranging dialog launched this week Owens’ web site.
Amid different doubtful Hollywood commentary and denials of wrongdoing, Weinstein repeatedly stated he has spent his time in jail studying, principally, claiming he’s nonetheless someway concerned in Hollywood.
“I have friends who are still in the industry who slip me, sometimes, their screenplays and, you ask me for notes, you know, can I do something for it? You know, can I help? Can I improve it?” he instructed Owens. Obliging man that he’s, “I just give them my honest thoughts. I’m not doing anything for me, but I’m doing things for others.”
He additionally shared his ideas on his preliminary assertion denying the accusations of sexual misconduct all these years in the past, which he characterised as, “Everything was consensual, blah, blah. Two lines. That was it.”
Instead, Weinstein stated, “I should have just done a press conference and handled each situation and said, ‘This girl is full of shit, and this one here and that, and this and that.’ And I ran away from it.”
Now, he sees himself as an arbiter of justice. Owens, as she has stated many occasions on her platforms, once more overtly said that she thought Weinstein was being punished by the woke plenty.
“It definitely looked like the Me Too movement got so big, that they needed to sort of hang somebody, you know?” she stated. “Somebody’s gotta die so that we can move on and think that we’ve achieved social justice. And I think that that’s somebody who is definitely you.”
While incarcerated, Weinstein has “decided to do my high school curriculum over,” together with studying classics. “Catcher in the Rye, Farewell to Arms, Great Gatsby. And God, how in the world could I have understood those books the way I understand them now? You know, if I wasn’t in prison, I wouldn’t have read those books again,” he marveled. “Farewell to Arms, believe me, they should let me out for a year immediately and let me remake that movie, because they’ve done two versions of them. One was okay, the first one with Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes, black and white, you know, Paramount. But it was all right. But the other one with Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones, David Selznick’s one of my favorite producers. This one just sucks, you know what I mean? What I could do with that material.”
But one of many “best books of all time” is extra modern fare: When the Going Was Good, by former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, who made headlines writing that he “banned” Weinstein from the Oscar social gathering.
“I’m the villain in the piece, you know what I mean?” Weinstein stated of the lately printed memoir. “Because I always used to try to sneak in more guests into the Vanity Fair Party. They never told me that I was banned for life, but apparently in the book, [Carter] said I was banned for life. I used to get, like, a guy would come to me and say, ‘If you can get me into the Vanity Fair Party, I’ll donate to any one of your charities.’”
Weinstein last attended the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in February of 2017, Carter’s final year hosting. Numerous women came forward with accusations of assault and misconduct in October of 2017.
In Weinstein’s retelling, he claims he negotiated a quarter-million dollar donation to amfAR in exchange for sneaking the guy into the party. “I brought the extra person with me and Georgina [Chapman], and they said, ‘You only have two. You brought three.’ You know, I argued a little bit, got him in and got that quarter of a million dollars for charity.” (A consultant for Carter didn’t reply to Vanity Fair.)
In addition to Owens, Weinstein has Joe Rogan in his nook. “I can’t believe I’m on Harvey Weinstein’s side,” the podcaster stated. Weinstein’s retrial is ongoing in New York.