While promoting his critically acclaimed space drama “Ad Astra” this week, Brad Pitt opened up to CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour about confronting Harvey Weinstein in 1995 after learning the indie film producer had sexually harassed Pitt’s then-girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow. Pitt told Amanpour he was acting on pure instinct because of how he was raised as a child. Paltrow revealed on “The Howard Stern Show” in May 2018 that Pitt approached Weinstein at the 1995 Broadway opening of “Hamlet” and told him, “If you ever make her feel uncomfortable again, I’ll kill you.”
“At that moment, I was just a boy from the Ozarks on the playground and that’s how we confronted things,” Pitt told Amanpour about standing up for Paltrow and confronting Weinstein. “I just wanted to make sure nothing was going to happen further, because Paltrow was going to do two films [with Weinstein]. I think the interesting thing is that we,...
“At that moment, I was just a boy from the Ozarks on the playground and that’s how we confronted things,” Pitt told Amanpour about standing up for Paltrow and confronting Weinstein. “I just wanted to make sure nothing was going to happen further, because Paltrow was going to do two films [with Weinstein]. I think the interesting thing is that we,...
- 9/20/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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