Harvey Weinstein calls himself ‘forgotten man’ who pioneered women-led films, angering accusers
- Disgraced producer says he ‘made more movies directed by women and about women than any filmmaker’, but work was ‘eviscerated’ after sex crime allegations
- 23 accusers, including Ashley Judd and Rose McGowan, hit back, calling him ‘sexual predator and unrepentant abuser who took everything and deserves nothing’
Harvey Weinstein’s accusers hit back at the disgraced Hollywood mogul on Monday after he complained that the world had forgotten how he “pioneered” women-led films following dozens of sex crime allegations.
The once powerful producer, whose case sparked the #MeToo movement, gave a rare interview just three weeks before the start of a criminal trial that could see him jailed for life.
Weinstein, 67, told the New York Post, speaking in a hospital following a back operation, that he felt “like the forgotten man”.
“I made more movies directed by women and about women than any filmmaker and I’m talking about 30 years ago,” said the producer of Shakespeare in Love and Pulp Fiction.
“I’m not talking about now when it’s vogue. I did it first! I pioneered it! It all got eviscerated because of what happened,” he added.