Given this, dozens of people have raised their voices to denounce the conduct of the producer
American actresses Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow are the latest women to accuse Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, one of Hollywood's best known and most powerful, of trying to abuse them. Last Sunday, the producer was forced to leave the independent film company that he founded and catapulted to Oscar glory due to a s+xual harassment scandal that he allegedly carried out for decades.
"I had a bad experience with him in my youth and decided not to work with him again and warn others when they did," confesses the actress who shot "Playing By Heart" under her orders, to the "New York Times" newspaper. . Her terrible experience occurred during the release of the movie "Playing by heart", during which the producer wanted to abuse her in a hotel room, but the actress was able to avoid him. "This behavior towards women in any field and in any country is unacceptable," he said in an e-mail to The New York Times, which today publishes a note with several new testimonies to add to the cause that began last week with the first accusations. .
Paltrow, for her part, has stated that the man who launched her career harassed her at her Beverly Hills hotel when she was just 22 years old and tried to abuse her, but managed to get away from her. The actress coincided with the producer when he starred in the adaptation of the Jane Austen story, "Emma." Before filming began, the producer summoned her to her hotel suite for an alleged work meeting that ended with the mogul putting his hands on her and suggesting they go into the next room for massages. "She was a girl, she was petrified," she said in an interview with The New York Times. The frightened actress turned to her boyfriend at the time, Brad Pitt, for help. The actor furiously went to the businessman's offices and confronted him in a heated discussion. The result was that the producer threatened her so that she would not tell anyone again while screaming at her. “I thought she was going to fire me. I had to keep it a secret," she said.
Reactions
They are not the first, and probably will not be the last. Given this, dozens of people have raised their voices to denounce the conduct of the producer. Among the most significant is the actress Meryl Streep who has not hesitated to publicly criticize the producer's behavior through statements published in the Huffington Post: "The shameful news about Harvey Weinstein has shocked all those whose work he has fought for and those whose good and noble causes he has supported. The brave women who have spoken out to expose these abuses are our heroes," she explained.
However, the actress has not been the only one to condemn Weinstein's behavior. Other familiar faces within the film industry have raised their voices in protest. Celebrities like Judd Apatow, Brie Larson or Patricia Arquette.
