Rosanna Arquette Writes Open Letter Responding to Harvey Weinstein’s Prison Interview Claims

Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Rosanna Arquette is pushing back against comments that Harvey Weinstein made in a recent jailhouse interview with The Hollywood Reporter . In a hard-hitting interview conducted last January at Riker’s Island, THR editor-in-chief Maer Roshan pressed the 73-year-old disgraced mogul on claims that he had professionally blackballed women who resisted his advances. “You fancy yourself such a tough guy,” ” Roshan noted. “If any of these women had refused you, wouldn’t you have sought to punish them?” The twice-convicted rapist, who faces a retrial on a remaining assault charge next month in New York, firmly denied the charges. “I may be a tough guy, but I’m not deranged. Just the threat of Harvey was enough — maybe more than enough. But it didn’t go to the point of blackballing anybody. If the camera’s on, I’m just going to say Rosanna Arquette, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie — they just exaggerated. They wanted to be part of the club. And they destroyed me.” The interview, the first sit-down since the disgraced mogul’s arrest, was published in the March 11 Oscar issue of the magazine, sparking global headlines and drawing both praise and condemnation. Related Stories Movies Quentin Tarantino Responds to 'Pulp Fiction' Actress Rosanna Arquette for N-Word Criticism Movies Harvey Weinstein: The Rikers Interview Arquette had first accused the mogul of assault in The New Yorker in October 2017, in one of two articles that helped kick off the global #MeToo movement. He was arrested seven months later, in May 2018. Now, in a letter shared with THR , the actress weighs in on Weinstein’s lengthy comments, firmly denies that she ever exaggerated anything and reiterates that her account of what happened has never wavered. Arquette also spoke to the condit...