The journalist additionally talked about Weinstein’s brother, Bob, who was “intimately concerned” in constructing the now-defunct The Weinstein Firm.
Requested if he was shocked when his sibling minimize him off after the scandal, Weinstein stated, “In no way.”
“He is determined to work, and this killed his profession, too,” he added. “He simply hopes that by s——- on me he can return to work. However sadly for him, they are going to by no means let him return to work. He is caught there with me. However it wasn’t a shock. The final years of The Weinstein Co., there was a lot of dangerous blood between us.”
He additionally strongly denied Bob’s claims he destroyed the corporate, declaring he saved it as a substitute.
“Hit after hit after hit. And it wasn’t simply the movies. I constructed our tv firm. Folks do not know this, however one of many final issues I did was carry Taylor Sheridan to Yellowstone. Sheridan wished to forged Robert Redford, however I stated, ‘You’ll want to get Kevin Costner.’ And it grew to become an enormous hit. However then this occurred, and other people overlook,” he stated of his contributions to The Weinstein Firm.