Quentin Tarantino has made a full-throated apology for “knowing enough” about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual abuse of young actresses and not doing anything about it.
Incredibly, one of Weinstein’s victims included a girl Tarantino was dating!
Weinstein produced motion pictures that the director crafted and acted in, most notably Pulp Fiction.
More from Hollywood Reporter:
As more accounts of sexual harassment and assault allegations against disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein continue to surface, longtime collaborator Quentin Tarantino now says he was aware of Weinstein’s alleged behavior and wishes he had spoken out earlier.
In an interview with The New York Times, the director addressed the publication’s bombshell exposé on Weinstein and said he had heard of several stories of alleged sexual harassment involving actresses, some of whom have since come forward to condemn the exec.
“I knew enough to do more than I did,” Tarantino said. “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.”
He continued, “I wish I had taken responsibility for what I heard. If I had done the work I should have done then, I would have had to not work with him.”
Tarantino revealed to the Times that he had been dating Mira Sorvino, one of Weinstein’s many accusers, when he heard the exec made inappropriate advances in a hotel room. Tarantino recalled feeling “shocked and appalled,” but ultimately dismissed Sorvino’s story as an isolated incident that would be resolved.
“I’m with her, he knows that,” he said, explaining his initial reaction. “He won’t mess with her, he knows that she’s my girlfriend.”
Sorvino came forward and detailed her encounter to The New Yorker, which published its own investigative report on Weinstein Oct. 23.
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