Gwyneth Paltrow has narrated, during her speech on the radio program The Howard Stern Show, that in 1995, when she was in a relationship with Brad Pitt, she told her boyfriend that Harvey Weinstein had tried to take advantage of her and him, coinciding with the premiere Hamlet on Broadway, grabbed him, pushed him against a wall, and said, "If you ever make her uncomfortable again, I'm going to kill you."
"It was as if she had thrown him against the wall," said the actress. "It was fantastic because what he did was take advantage of his fame and her power to protect me when I didn't have fame or power yet." The result of the heroic action of the protagonist of Troy? "Harvey never got on with me again. Never," the actress assured Howard. On the other hand, her employment relationship was maintained but, in a certain way, contained. "Power was his currency and he knew when to give you something or take it from you," she said. "I put it behind me but our professional relationship became strained at times."
The protagonist of Avengers also spoke with Stern about her participation in The New York Times report, from October 2017, where several actresses, including Rose McGowan and Pitt's last (official) partner, Angelina Jolie, pointed to the producer and They accused him of sexual abuse. The actress assured that it was her newspaper that contacted her and asked if Weinstein had harassed her. At first, she reassured her, she hesitated to give her testimony but she does not regret it. "She was a girl, she was petrified," she said in that interview. "She was very shaken by it all and had just agreed to do two movies with him," she explained. The producer took her for a massage at a Beverly Hills hotel and then told her not to say anything about what had happened, she added.
"We were in the hotel room and he came on to me," Paltrow said on the show. All this happened before the actress achieved stardom. "It was unexpected I have to say, she was having the most amazing experience at Miramax," she added. "She was blinded."
Finally, the professional relationship of Gwyneth Paltrow and Harvey Weinstein found a middle ground of cordiality and when the actress won the Oscar in 1998 for her role in Shakespeare in Love, she thanked the producer of the film.
