The Caligula of Cannes: my encounter with Harvey Weinstein | Peter Bradshaw

The Weinstein I met was a capricious man who instilled fear in his retinue. The women who’ve spoken out deserve the utmost praise

I met Harvey Weinstein only once, at an event in 2014 at the Cannes film festival. From the stage he denounced this newspaper and the “Guardian reviewer” for our uncomplimentary coverage, and the noise in the room dwindled to an uneasy, giggly quiet. I had been tasked to talk to him later at the same event.

It was a brief and excruciating nose-to-nose encounter, in which Weinstein effected a capricious Caligula mood-shift to jokiness, making complimentary remarks about the paper’s Edward Snowden story. I can now see how that fits into his modus operandi: appearing to support liberal causes.

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