Fans Call Brad Pitt Trash For Working With Harvey Weinstein Despite What Angelina Jolie Went T
Angelina Jolie has opened up about her split from Brad Pitt in a candid interview with The Guardian, sharing insight on some of the things that had plagued the last couple of years of their relationship.
According to the mother of six, she was deeply disturbed by her ex-partner’s decision to get in contact with disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein in 2012, hoping that the latter’s firm, The Weinstein Company, would join his 2012 noir thriller Killing Them Softly as its official distributor.
Weinstein and Pitt had already built up a good relationship, having also worked together when the 57-year-old starred in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious B**terds, which was co-produced by none other than the Weinstein Company.
In her latest interview, Jolie reveals she was not happy about Pitt reaching out to Weinstein to work with him on his motion picture — particularly since the actor was aware of his former flame’s “bad experience” with the former movie mogul, who she previously claimed at propositioned her in a hotel room in 1998.
Jolie vowed to never share the same room as Weinstein again.
“I was asked to do ‘The Aviator,’ but I said no because he was involved. I never associated or worked with him again. It was hard for me when Brad did,” the Maleficent star gushed.
“We fought about it. Of course, it hurt,” further expressing that she was so distraught by Pitt’s move that she refused to attend any promotional events in support of the motion picture.
Fans have since taken to Twitter, sharing their anger and frustration that Pitt would continue to work with Weinstein despite what his then-wife is said to have endured while being around the former Hollywood exec.
At the age of 21, Jolie was cast in the Weinstein-produced 1998 flick Playing by Heart, and while the role was huge for the actress at the time, she was stunned by the advances Weinstein made when they were alone in a hotel room.
“If you get yourself out of the room, you think he attempted but didn’t, right? The truth is that the attempt and the experience of the attempt is an assault,” she added from her Guardian interview
“I really don’t want to derail the book into stories about Harvey. It was. It was beyond a pass, it was something I had to escape. I stayed away and warned people about him. I remember telling Jonny [Lee Miller], my first husband, who was great about it, to spread the word to other guys — don’t let girls go alone with him.”
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