THE WALKING DEAD Star Samantha Morton Says Harvey Weinstein Called Her "Unf*ckable" & Tried To Ruin Her Career

THE WALKING DEAD Star Samantha Morton Says Harvey Weinstein Called Her "Unf*ckable" & Tried To Ruin Her Career

Samantha Morton (The Walking Dead, Minority Report) has shared some new details on the past behaviour of disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein, who has responded from behind bars...

By MarkCassidy - Jul 28, 2023 04:07 AM EST
Filed Under: The Walking Dead

Former Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein is currently serving 39 years behind bars after being convicted of multiple counts of rape, but the disgraced movie mogul's past behaviour is still making headlines.

During an interview for a new episode of The Louis Theroux Podcast (via SFFGazette.com), Samantha Morton (Minority Report, The Walking Dead, The Whale) recalled her tumultuous history with Weinstein, who was so impressed with her performance in 1997’s Under the Skin (not to be confused with the more recent Scarlett Johansson sci-fi drama), that he offered her one of the lead roles in 2000's romantic comedy, About Adam.

After reading the script, Morton decided that she wasn't a fan, and declined the part.

“I said, ‘I don’t like it. I think the film is really misogynistic and I don’t want to be part of it.’ The casting director came back with, ‘You don’t say no to Harvey.’ Well it’s not to him. I just don’t want to do this film… and I had just worked with Stuart Townsend on Under the Skin. It was just not interesting to me. I was uber-polite.”

Even so, Weinstein was not pleased, and reportedly vowed to "ruin" Morton's career. According to the actress, turning down his offer cost her the female lead role in Matt Damon and Heath Ledger-starring fantasy The Brothers Grimm. The part went to Game of Thrones alum Lena Headey after Weinstein reportedly dubbed Morton "unf*ckable."

Weinstein actually reached out to Variety from his cell via a representative to refute Morton's account of what happened.

“Samantha is a brilliant actor and can do anything well, and that is for certain. What you need to know is that we picked Lena Headey for ‘Brothers Grimm’ simply because we believed her to be the best for that particular role — not for anything other than that. The comment Ms. Morton claims I said was said by one of her own team members and not me. This is an old story and, once again, someone is using my situation to make headlines for a project they want to promote. And kudos to Ms. Morton — this is exactly what happened. It didn’t happen that way. She is a great actor, and she didn’t get picked because we thought someone was a better fit for the part. That is how producing a great film works. People should just stop using my name to advance their own agendas at this point — it’s too easy to say it and for it to go viral, but it doesn’t make it fact.”

Whatever way it went down, Morton is still enjoying a very successful career.

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Chaos200
Chaos200 - 7/28/2023, 4:19 AM
That's the first time I've heard someone being upset Weinstein didn't want to [frick] them...
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 7/28/2023, 4:23 AM
"That is how producing a great film works."

Friendly reminder that he's talking about The Brothers Grimm.
ProfessorWhy
ProfessorWhy - 7/28/2023, 5:10 AM
@ObserverIO - Gilliam is the only director/ creator I can think of who has made so many bad movies along with great ones, all while sticking to his guns and doing his own thing. He has really fine to a weird, bad place in filmmaking.
ProfessorWhy
ProfessorWhy - 7/28/2023, 5:10 AM
@ProfessorWhy - * gone, not fine
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 7/28/2023, 5:49 AM
@ProfessorWhy - Some of them are even worth defending. Baron Munchausen any day. Brothers Grimm not so much.
TheOtherOn
TheOtherOn - 7/28/2023, 4:41 AM
Weinstein...

abd00bie
abd00bie - 7/28/2023, 4:45 AM
lol he actually said, "It was her people who said it, not me.." 😭
mountainman
mountainman - 7/28/2023, 5:05 AM
It’s funny that Weinstein took the fall (and to be clear he should have been punished) when this culture has been rampant at Hollywood for decades. It’s a similar issue to us not having seen Epstein’s client list yet.

This type of stuff is so pervasive and the big bad villains (who are absolutely bad people) distract people from the actual problem that really doesn’t get fixed. The only person that spoke out against Weinstein early on was Rose McGowan, and she was ostracized for it. All the women that came out later could have come out when she spoke publicly, but they didn’t because they didn’t want to be ostracized too.

And people wonder why there are conspiracy theories about pedos in hollywood or the elites in general. It’s because we get these partial stories and it’s obvious crime and abuse are still happening. Since we don’t know the full story because info is withheld from us, people speculate.
TheOtherOn
TheOtherOn - 7/28/2023, 5:46 AM
@mountainman - "Epstein’s client list"



mountainman
mountainman - 7/28/2023, 8:19 AM
@TheOtherOn - I get it. And it probably isn’t safe to assume that EVERYONE is doing it or even every name on the flight logs is a pedo. Dude was connected and may have just tried compromising powerful people.

But the fact is if we don’t know then more people will speculate.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 7/28/2023, 5:46 AM
Everytime I watch a Miramax movie, his names pops up and I say Ew lol
Blergh
Blergh - 7/28/2023, 6:27 AM
Whenever I see a movie produced by the Weinsteins my first thought is “well this female lead sure had to bang Harvey”.
The next thought is “it’s impossible Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarantino and his other frequent collaborators didn’t know about this behaviour”
TheFinestSmack
TheFinestSmack - 7/28/2023, 8:23 AM
@Blergh - Oh they all knew about it. They knew the cost of fame and decided it was worth it anyway. They can posture about it all they want. Doesn't change that they knew and did nothing.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 7/29/2023, 12:54 PM
Harvey Weinstein looks like he smells like pure human feces at all times. The fact that money and connections made him so bold is astounding. And the fact that his mind was able to block the mental damage caused by money is also astounding. No normal woman who ever entertain or sleep with that ogre without knowing they'd get something in return.
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