THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER HAD AN INTERVIEW WITH
BOB WEINSTEIN, THE BROTHER OF HARVEY WEINSTEIN, AND OF COURSE,
THE INTERVIEW HAD EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THE SEXUAL ASSAULT
ALLEGATIONS TOWARD HARVEY WEINSTEIN AND HARVEY HAS SINCE
BEEN FIRED FROM THE COMPANY THAT HE AND HIS BROTHER BOB BOUNDED
TOGETHER, AND BOB CLAIMS UP AND DOWN THE HE KNEW NOTHING ABOUT
HARVEY'S PREDATORY WAYS.
HE HAD NO IDEA THAT HE WAS COERCING OR
FORCING WOMEN INTO SEXUAL SITUATIONS THAT THEY DID NOT
WANT TO BE INVOLVED IN AND SO I WANTED TO SHARE SOME OF HIS
PERSPECTIVE AND THEN WE WILL DISCUSS.
HE TOLD THE HOLLYWOOD
REPORTER:
BUT HE SAID, I DIDN'T KNOW THAT HE WAS DOING THIS TO WOMEN.
I THOUGHT HE WAS CHEATING ON HIS WIFE.
I THOUGHT HE WAS NEEDLESSLY CRUEL AND MEAN TO SOME OF
THE PEOPLE THAT WERE AROUND HIM, BUT NEVER DID I THINK HE
WOULD BE A SEXUAL PREDATOR.
SO TMC REPORTS THAT HARVEY WEINSTEIN BELIEVES THAT IT WAS
HIS BROTHER BOB WEINSTEIN THAT ACTUALLY LEAVES THE DAMAGING
PHOTOS TO THE NEW YORK TIMES.
IF THAT IS THE CASE, THAT IS
HIGH-STAKES POKER.
THAT IS SOME DRAMA.
BOB WEINSTEIN CLAIMS
THAT HE HAS ONLY TALK TO HARVEY 10 TIMES ABOUT PERSONAL MATTERS
IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS.
I FIND ALL THAT A LITTLE HARD TO
BELIEVE.
I THINK THEY OBVIOUSLY ARE AT WAR, RIGHT?
THEY'RE NOT
GETTING ALONG.
I CANNOT COUNT NOW THE NUMBER OF TIMES THAT BOB
WEINSTEIN HAS CALLED HARVEY WEINSTEIN SICK AND DEPRAVED
AFTER THE SCANDAL BROKE AND OF COURSE, KICKED THEM OFF THE
BOARD WHICH IS CONVENIENT FOR BOB WHO IS STILL ON THE BOARD
BUT I THINK HE MAY HAVE OVERPLAYED HIS HAND AND SO HERE
HE IS NOW TRYING TO DO DAMAGE CONTROL GOING I NEVER KNEW ABOUT
THIS STUFF.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY ASKED ABOUT AND HE
REFUSED ASKING THIS INTERVIEW IS WELL, YOU GUYS JUST DID CONTRACT
NEGOTIATIONS AND RENEWED HARVEY WEINSTEIN DEAN'S CONTRACT AND
THERE'S GOOD EVIDENCE THAT AT THAT POINT, YOU HAD ALL THESE
ALLEGATIONS THAT YOU KNEW ABOUT SO HOW CAN YOU SAY DON'T KNOW.
HE SAID I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT, IT IS IN LITIGATION.
HE WOULDN'T GET INTO THOSE STATISTICS.
YOU JUST GOT INTO THE THING THAT SAID YOU KNOW YOUR BROTHER
BEST.
YOU DIDN'T KNOW FOR DECADES AND DECADES THAT IT
WASN'T JUST CHEATING AND THERE WAS A WHOLE SYSTEM SET UP WITH
THAT WOMEN BRINGING PEOPLE IN WHERE THE WOMEN WOULD BE
ALONE WITH HIM AND THEY WOULD DO THIS.
HE DID ALL THIS TIMES NEAR THE SAME COMPANY AND YOU NEVER
HEARD ABOUT ANY OF THAT.
WILL BE HERE OVER AND OVER AGAIN WAS THAT HARVEY'S BEHAVIOR
WAS AN OPEN SECRET, THE EVERYBODY KNEW ABOUT IT BUT NO
ONE WAS WILLING TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT AND NOW YOU KIND OF GO
BACK IN TIME AND YOU SEE INTERVIEWS THAT WOMEN HAD DONE
AND SOME OF THE ACCUSATIONS THAT THEY HAD VERY PUBLICLY MADE AND
IT IS INTERESTING TO SEE THAT NOTHING REALLY CAUGHT ON.
COURTNEY LOVE HAD AN INTERVIEW BACK IN THE EARLY TO THOUSANDS
WHERE SHE WAS ASKED WHAT KIND OF ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO YOUNG
WOMEN IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY WANT TO BREAK INTO THE
ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY?
I AM PARAPHRASING THE SHE ESSENTIALLY
SET OF HARVEY WEINSTEIN INVITED TO A PARTY, DO NOT GO.
AND
SEEMED AS THOUGH SOMETHING LIKE THAT DIDN'T EVEN REALLY RAISE
RED FLAGS IN THE MEDIA WERE AMONG PEOPLE IN THE
ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY.
IT DIDN'T CONVINCE HIM TO DO
SOMETHING ABOUT AND AGAIN, I THINK IT GOES BACK TO THE FACT
THAT HE WAS A MAN IN A POSITION OF POWER WHO WOULD PUSH FOR
THESE PROJECTS AND PUSH FOR THESE MOVIES AND HELP PEOPLE
MAKE THAT MONEY AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, THAT WAS MORE
IMPORTANT THAN THE LIVES OF ALL OF THESE WOMEN WHO ARE BEING
ABUSED.
KNOW WHETHER OR NOT BOB WEINSTEIN DO ABOUT IT OR NOT,
YOU CAN ONLY SPECULATE AND I HATE SPECULATING BUT IT SEEMS
WEIRD TO ME.
LET ME GIVE YOU SOME MORE OF HIS QUOTES.
WHEN
HARVEY WEINSTEIN RELEASED HIS INITIAL STATEMENT REGARDING
THESE ALLEGATIONS, HE TOOK OWNERSHIP OF SOME OF THOSE
ALLEGATIONS, BUT HE ALSO DID THIS WEIRD THING WHERE AT THE
END OF HIS STATEMENT HE SAID THAT HE WAS GOING TO FOCUS HIS
ENERGY ON FIGHTING THE NRA.
EVERYONE THOUGHT THAT WAS WEIRD
INCLUDING BOB WEINSTEIN.
HE SAID:
HE
ALSO SAID:
LET'S BREAK THAT DOWN.
I DON'T THINK BOB IS DOING HIMSELF
ANY GOOD BY DOING THIS INTERVIEW TO REST OF ALL, IF YOU DIDN'T
KNOW THAT HE MASTURBATED INTO A POTTED PLANT WHILE HE HAD THIS
ONE WOMAN CORNERED IN A RESTAURANT SOMEWHERE, OKAY.
I
UNDERSTAND THAT.
IT WAS A PARTICULARLY BIZARRE THING IN
THE ONLY TWO PEOPLE IN THE ROOM AND THAT STORY HAD NOT GOTTEN
OUT.
IF YOU DIDN'T TURN HIM INTO HIS WIFE BECAUSE OF THE
CHEATING, YOU DON'T WANT TO BE OVERLY JUDGMENTAL.
THAT IS NOT
YOUR BUSINESS, AND UNDERSTAND THAT.
BUT DECADES AND DECADES
OF THESE ACCUSATIONS AND RUMORS, ETC., AND YOU ARE NOT SOMEONE
ELSE IN THE INDUSTRY.
YOU RUN THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY WITH
HARVEY WEINSTEIN, WHO IS YOUR BROTHER, AND YOU THOUGHT THEY
WERE ALL CONSENSUAL SITUATIONS, SO YOU THOUGHT ALL MY GOD, THERE
ARE DOZENS OF WOMEN IN HOLLYWOOD YEAR AFTER YEAR WHO COME IN AND
WILL SLEEP WITH MY BROTHER TO GET ROLES, HE THOUGHT THAT WAS
AWESOME.
YOU NEVER QUESTION, HEY, MAYBE WE SHOULD HIRE THOSE
PEOPLE.
MAYBE WE SHOULD FIND THE MOST TALENTED ACTRESS
INSTEAD OF THE ONE WILLING TO SLEEP WITH HARVEY WEINSTEIN
EVEN IN YOUR SCENARIO.
I'M NOT SPECULATING, I JUST SAYING BASED ON WHAT YOU
SAID, THAT IS NOT THAT GREAT, BIG GUY.
THAT'S ACTUALLY REALLY GREAT POINT AND I DIDN'T THINK OF IT
FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE BUT I THINK THE THOUGHT PROCESS OF
PEOPLE IN THESE TYPES OF POSITIONS OF POWER IS THAT
YET, OF COURSE IS CONSENSUAL BECAUSE HERE'S A GUY IN A
POSITION OF POWER AND THIS IS WHAT WOMEN DO, RIGHT?
WOMEN WILL SLEEP WITH WHOEVER THEY NEED TO SLEEP WITH IN
ORDER TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT THEY NEED.
THAT IS A.
WE DON'T HAVE TO GIVE THE JOB TO THE MOST QUALIFIED PERSON.
WE ESCAPE TO THE JOB TO THE PERSON TO THE PERSON WHO IS
WILLING TO SIT WITH HARVEY WEINSTEIN.
THAT IS NOT A GOOD
DEFENSE.
I DON'T THINK BOB WEINSTEIN DID HIMSELF ANY FAVORS
WITH THIS AND IF IT TURNS OUT THAT HARVEY IS RIGHT, THAT BOB
WAS THE PERSON WHO ACTUALLY LATE IN THE FIRST PLACE AND WE DO NOT
KNOW IF THAT'S TRUE, BOY, HE LIT A MATCH THAT HE CANNOT UN-LIGHT
AND NOW THE WHOLE HOUSE IS ON FIRE.