Samantha Morton appeared on a brand new episode of “The Louis Theroux Podcast” and recalled her tumultuous historical past with Harvey Weinstein, who’s presently imprisoned as a convicted rapist. The “Minority Report” actor mentioned Weinstein blackballed her on his movies reminiscent of 2005’s “The Brothers Grimm” after she turned down certainly one of his motion pictures years prior. That movie was the 2000 romantic comedy “About Adam,” starring Kate Hudson, Stuart Townsend and Frances O’Connor.
According to Morton, Weinstein was impressed along with her efficiency in 1997’s “Under the Skin” and courted her to star in “About Adam.”
“I mentioned, ‘I don’t prefer it,’” Morton mentioned about turning down the supply. “‘I believe the movie is absolutely misogynistic and I don’t wish to be a part of it.’ The casting director got here again with, ‘You don’t say no to Harvey.’ Well it’s to not him. I simply don’t wish to do that movie… and I had simply labored with Stuart Townsend on ‘Under the Skin.’ It was simply not attention-grabbing to me. I used to be uber-polite.”
“I [then] had a cellphone name saying, ‘You can’t say no,’” she continued. “The ‘no’ wasn’t being listened to. So they saved coming again with this position and I used to be informed unequivocally, ‘You’re not going to work once more except you do that position. I’m going to make your life hell. You won’t work once more.’”
Morton stood her floor, however she mentioned that value her future roles in Weinstein-produced initiatives reminiscent of “The Brothers Grimm.” According to the actor, Weinstein mentioned he didn’t need her for the Matt Damon and Heath Ledger-starring fantasy movie as a result of she was “unfuckable.” Lena Headey was finally forged within the position.
“It made me query why he was anti me?” Morton remembered considering, earlier than realizing all of it tied again to her refusal to star in “About Adam.”
“I forgot about it as a result of it was years earlier,” she added. “And then all these years later, I noticed that [when] I get a suggestion, get a letter from a director, if Miramax or then the Weinstein Company had something to do with it, it was simply terrible for me… He had a motive, a deep-seated motive, to simply attempt to destroy my profession… He categorically couldn’t, as a result of I saved working, doing unbiased cinema everywhere in the world.”
Morton continued to seek out work in Hollywood, be it in Steven Spielberg’s “Minority Report” or on AMC’s “The Walking Dead.” She most just lately appeared in A24’s Oscar winner “The Whale” and the #MeToo drama “She Said,” which facilities on The New York Times investigation into Weinstein’s sexual assault.
