Harvey's Girls

Harvey girl or no: Alicia Vikander?

Uma Thurman

Then: She danced with Travolta, took an adrenaline needle to the heart and became a star.

Now: Thurman’s career has been built on unfulfilled promise from her pretty great performances in great movies. Starting with Pulp Fiction to starring alongside a veritable buffet of “our careers didn’t work out as hoped” actresses in Beautiful Girls and making stops at the Kill Bills and Gattaca along the way, Thurman has made no other good movies. None. And with the exception of Bill, the films on which she’s taken first billing have been overwhelmingly unwatchable.

It’s not as though these are the only actresses who made it so close to the top to fall with a gently plop. I could go on for days. Moira Kelly, Monica Potter, Mena Suvari, Amy Smart… But Harvey’s Girls have that special place in our world—they were delicately placed at the top, handed their dreams on a platter, and they couldn’t have it, be it through lack of talent, more appealing competitors, or just bad timing.

And when he’s done with them? The good Harvey giveth, and the good Harvey taketh away.

[quote]The Harvey Girls are easily spotted

Well, of course we are! That's why we wear uniforms!

Uma Thurman was a promising actress at a very early age - I don't believe she was one of Harvey's projects.

Harvey Weinstein: Ex-assistant Speaks Out on ‘How Hollywood kept Harvey's secret’ - BBC News

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Julia Roberts was another of his girls

August Osage County

Harvey's REAL girls, the ones who benefited the most by being close to him.

Thanks for the awards push, Harv!

Damon is smelling cookies at R9.

Wow, look at that smile Matt Damon is wearing at R9!

DAMON LOOKS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GAY IN THE TUXEDO PICTURE HOE MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDD AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

The smile !!!!

Longtime partners Affleck and Damon

Harvey and Jessica Alba

HARVEY WEINSTEIN waits to chat with SCARLETT JOHANSSON at movie premiere -- 2008

Jan. 16, 2006

HARVEY WEINSTEIN and QUENTiN TARANTINO eat together inside movie premiere party

ralph fiennes, a gun, and a balcony = no harvey

He was never with ME.

Julia Roberts?

Jessica Alba was likely funded by Harvey. Her joke of a company "Honest" made her far wealthier (until she gets sued) than her stupid action franchise.

Look at the adam's apple on this one

Basically prostitutes.

R9 exactly. All makes sense now.

Most of them were fucking to get into the business.

There's also lots of former ex male whores and strippers who are A-list actors now Brad Pitt, Arnold, Chris Pratt, Channing Tatum, Pacino, ...

Harvey’s lawyers: Not all women hate Weinstein — ask J.Law and Meryl!

"Lie back and think of england"

Harry Styles was a Harvey girl.

R29 Yes him Damon and Affleck too

Renee Zellweger was a Harvey girl

I wanted to read that article at OP but couldn't through the 764836726 ads that popped up in front of it.

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The out-of-town of working title was HARV’S BROADS

One of the stranger items of note this year, if you’re into this sort of thing, has been the rise of Blake Lively. To those who merely observe, it’s no different than the dawn of any other interchangeable big breasted blonde starlet. Those come around with the frequency of #22 buses and are rarely lasting.

But this particular star-forming has been interesting. TV girls, let alone those of the primetime soap genre, don’t have the best track record with the transition to big screen success. Where some (Michelle Williams) have found critical success, others have either striven for popularity over acclaim, or simply didn’t have the skills to ascend past their television status.

But Blake Lively is not only in the company of the small-screeners who’ve reached for the brass rail of film. She’s in that elite club where the crash and burn is just as swift and harsh, but even more vivid and public: the Harvey Weinstein club.

Every few years, Harvey picks a new girl as his pet. He puts her in a picture or two, takes her to an event, and not unlike Cher Horowitz, makes her a project, an attempted creation.

The Harvey Girls are easily spotted. They are all very pretty, often in a rather generic sense. Their instant fame and the push behind them comes seemingly out of nowhere and without any justification in terms of resume or skill set. Most obviously, at least as of 2007, they are clothed exclusively in Marchesa on the red carpet (the fashion line of Weinstein’s wife, Georgina Chapman). So if you were wondering why Harvey Weinstein seems only interested in actresses who dress like fairy princesses from Planet Sugarplum, it’s his wife’s fault. But the most telling sign, if you’re looking, is the Want. These girls, each of them, has the look of desperation, of need. They WILL be famous. They WILL be stars.

Rumors of Harvey’s casting couch ways are legendary. As a minor Midwestern blogger, I can’t know their validity. But I do know for each of these girls, there was an enormous PR push, proclamations of “it-girl” and “the next big thing” and then a fairly daunting silence that had to be devastating to these young women who really believed this was their “it.”

One of the Harvey Girls was Gwyneth Paltrow, and I suppose she’s what keeps the line long and wanton. But there can only be so many Gwyneths. There’s no shortage of Gretchens.

Harvey’s Best and Brightest:

Mira Sorvino

Then: 1995’s Mighty Aphrodite was huge for Sorvino, winning her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress among other honors.

Now: While there exists a cult of us who will forever love her for Romy & Michelle, that adoration has not translated into a popularity resurgence. A subsequent Miramax venture, Guillermo Del Toro’s Mimic was a disappointment, both critically and financially, and after a few more attempts towards big screen success, she’s primarily stuck with indie and television roles, the most notable in Lifetime’s Human Trafficking miniseries.

Gretchen Mol

Then: In the late ’90s, she co-starred in Rounders with Matt Damon and Edward Norton, then became the fixation of that other moderately creepy bigwig with a fetish for blonde actresses: Woody Allen. She infamously appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair, which touted her “the it-girl of the ’90s.”

Now: The human cautionary tale for all would-be “next big things.” Mol’s latter-day career has been comfortable, if not unspectacular, appearing in 3:10 to Yuma, on Lifetime in The Memory Keeper’s Daughter and most recently on Boardwalk Empire. She also, in my opinion, was one of the best parts of David Wain’s lovable mess of a movie, The Ten.

Jessica Alba

Then: Alba had been around for a while prior to 2005’s Sin City, but apparently Harvey fell in love at first seductive bull ride, trusting her with Awake.

Now: Awake failed. But her other film choices have been so much worse that those have had far more to do with her middling career than that forgettable mess.

Sienna Miller

Then: It was only four or so years ago, but it’s easy to forget just how hard the push was on Sienna Miller. She was huge. She was painted as this immense fashion icon who would be an unstoppable celebrity force as soon as Factory Girl was released.

Now: Factory Girl was a big pile of okay, and she just…kind of…didn’t take the world by storm. Everyone else has poor film choices and personal struggle against them. But Miller just didn’t work out. Sometimes that’s worse.

The Harvey Girls are easily spotted. They are all very pretty, often in a rather generic sense. Their instant fame and the push behind them comes seemingly out of nowhere and without any justification in terms of resume or skill set. Most obviously, at least as of 2007, they are clothed exclusively in Marchesa on the red carpet (the fashion line of Weinstein’s wife, Georgina Chapman). So if you were wondering why Harvey Weinstein seems only interested in actresses who dress like fairy princesses from Planet Sugarplum, it’s his wife’s fault. But the most telling sign, if you’re looking, is the Want. These girls, each of them, has the look of desperation, of need. They WILL be famous. They WILL be stars.

SLAVE.

According to her story, Weinstein told the model that they should have a threesome with actress Olivia Wilde.

Someone better explain that picture to me, and soon.

R1 Yes

I thought Vikander was a lesbian?

Harvey hit that? Man these broads are gross.

There is no way Blake Lively, she of Hollywood stock and general glamour, length and beauty, would have sex with Harvey Weinstein.

Now, did she bang Ben Affleck during the Town? He said he cast her without meeting her or putting her on film and had barely seen her tv show he admitted so it's likely he wanted to hit that and that's why he gave her the role. Allegedly Garner found those naked pics of Blake on his phone and leaked them.

But NO WAY did she sleep with Harvey.

[Quote] There is no way Blake Lively, she of Hollywood stock and general glamour, length and beauty, would have sex with Harvey Weinstein.

Is this sarcasm or......?

R44 Yes she's a lesbian but still a Harvey Girl

Olivia Wilde has man jaw

“Harvey hit that? Man these broads are gross.”

Harvey, a rapist and sexual harasser is who is gross here.

Jennifer Lawrence is more gross than Harvey

[Quote] Jennifer Lawrence is more gross than Harvey

Only this scenario can explain casting and keeping Uma in The Producers. Bad acting, bad singing, and such an awful body they had to cover it up with bad costumes...

Harvey Weinstein broke into Annabella Sciorra’s house and raped her.

I don't believe Zellweger slept with Weinstein. By 2005 her career had peaked. But she seems emotionally damaged. I would believe he mindfucked her to amuse himself.

He seems to like to humiliate and belittle some women, setting them up to fail, like Mol.

He gave careers to others such as Viklander and jlaw. Jlaw had an Oscar nomination at 19, maybe she wasn't as needy professionally?

LMAO @ Olivia Wilde and Harvey in that picture.

Wonder who they had a threesome with after the game?

Vikander is a terrible actress and a punishment on us all.

Harvey Weinstein and TV personality Heidi Klum (back, L) and actress Uma Thurman

disgusting

If you search "marchesa red carpet" you see a few faces repeat over and over.

I thought it well known Harvey slept with Rene.

It was why she broke up with Jack White. Apparently he found out that she’d slept with Weinstein in order to get cast in Cold Mountain.

[quote] I thought it well known Harvey slept with Rene. It was why she broke up with Jack White. Apparently he found out that she’d slept with Weinstein in order to get cast in Cold Mountain.

I thought that’s why Kenny Chesney left her.

Kenny Chesney is a closet case

R63 She's old for Harvey's taste

Audrey Tautou

R41 Someone posted elsewhere that it was Cara Delevingne and that Oliva Wilde is Harvey's lurer.

R54 Years ago there were blind items that were clearly about Harvey and Gretchen Mol about a producer that loved to sexually humiliate women.

Michael Bay also enjoys sexually humiliating women.

Anne Hathaway?

Harvey Weinstein has optioned Get Happy and will produce a stage show and film based on it. Both are slated to star Anne Hathaway; to date no other creative personnel have been named.On January 15, 2014, on the Howard Stern Show, Harvey said filming would begin summer of 2014 with Hathaway starring.

Yes, Anne was one that Harvey got with sexually. Hence why she, like Mila Kunis and Rooney Mara and others, haven't so much as said a word agasint him.

R69 I always wonder if he has some proof (ie-videos of them blowing him) so they keep quiet out of fear. Or perhaps they're afraid they'll leak their nudes like he did with JLaw?

r41, interesting, as Cara is a lesbian (or as in Hollywood parlance, bisexual). She was with Michelle Rodriguez for a while.

R67 Why hasn't #metoo come for Michael Bay?

R71 Yes she is a lesbian she's out as bi and has bearded for gay men

but she outed herself as a lesbian when she talked about her experience with Weinstein

R69 . Hence why she, like Mila Kunis and Rooney Mara and others, [bold]haven't so much as said a word agasint him.[/bold]

Goop and Thurman has talked about Weinstein many times but they fucked Harvey for roles.

Rooney Mara has 2 undeserving Oscar nominations

One is a category fraud nod for Carol which is a Weinstein film.

and the other is when she was nominated over Swinton. Yes Mara was good in that film but it was a remake and was done by another actress before and way better (Rapace) and in no way she was better than Swinton.

Harvey Weinstein is completely unfuckable. He probably has a jelly belly and a garbage dick. Any woman he harassed / assaulted is a fucking supermodel BY DEFAULT compared to that marshmallow, sexless, FAT-FUCK, gelatinous, waif-like thing in a suit.

Oh, btw, if you look like him, go to a gym and fix your diet. And NEVER hit on a normal looking person, ever.

Lipstick on an actual PIG.

So fucking ugly.

I wear the marks of his abuse proudly on mu body, knowing that his punishment has finally COME!

I noticed Jennifer Lopez wore Marchesa a few times as did Naomi Watts

Must be a United Statesian thing.

[quote] Why hasn't #metoo come for Michael Bay?

Meghan Fox tried way before #metoo and it pretty much ruined her career (she could have had some sex-bomb Tomb Raider type of franchise of her own). Guys like Bay and (Bryan) Singer have still enough support from Hollywood big wigs (because most of them have their own #metoo predator skeletons in the closet.

Madonna, her gf Goop, gay actor Ben Affleck and Weinstein

Singer Madonna and Harvey Weinstein attend 'Hear My Song' Premiere on December 16, 1991 at Avco Center Cinemas in Los Angeles

Miramax 1995 Pre Oscar Party

an 11, 2007; New York, NY, USA; Actress/singer MADONNA and HARVEY WEINSTEIN at the arrivals for the special screening of her new film 'Arthur and the Invisibles'

Jennifer Lopez and Harvey Weinstein

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r88 reminds me that Transamerica was slated to star Trans actress Alexandra Billings (Transparent/Broadway's The Nap), but right before filming, William H. Macy and wife coughed up a lot of money and the role went to Mrs. Macy over the director's objections. Never knew Harvey was involved, but it all adds up, doesn't it.

R72 and R81 Someone here suggested that it's because Bay's films still make a lot of money and thus too many people are invested in his success. I think they're correct. Everyone knew about Weinstein for decades, but he's mostly had flops the last few years so it became "safe" to expose him. If he had a Shakespeare in Love or The English Patient recently, people would still be covering for him too.

I thought it was because Megan pissed off SS.

Megan Fox vs. Michael Bay

R92 Michael Bay also has one of the most infamous casting couches in Hollywood ala Harvey.

Harvey might have been a little handsy but is much worse to find oneself unemployed and unemployable.

LOL Ben Affleck's gay??????????????????????????????????? The guy's the most notorious poon-hound in the last 25 years of Hollywood.

Banging Damon in the ass a few times doesn't make him gay.

Affleck has only dated/married lesbians

R89 Thanks for the info

Was that weird Rodriguez/Tarantino and Madonna as a witch short film compendium around 95 Miramax?

She’s a Harvey i/lady/i.

Paltrow is a lesbian?

Afflect as Basic Straight Perve Bro written all over him.

Matt is more likely to be bi.

R99 Yes and dated Madonna

So she was never married to Martin, her kids are fake, and she's not married to Brad Woodpeck or whatever he goes by?

R95: PUSSY! Pussyhound.

R102 her kids are fake

I wouldn't call them fake they are still her kids but she had them via surrogate it's what all the closeted celebs do

It would be easier to fuck Michael Bay, skeevy asshole that he is, than gross fat fuck Weinstein.

but fucking Weinstein had the biggest prize

It would be hard to underestimate Harvey's power in Miramax's heyday. He had all the cliches in hand. He could get you an Oscar or he could see to it that you barely ever worked again. And he was mean.

Cameron Diaz was in a blind several years ago, it said she had been seen blowing Weinstein in a screening room in NYC. She was laughably miscast in Gangs of New York, shame on Scorcese for allowing that.

[quote]LOL Ben Affleck's gay??????????????????????????? - ????????

He's 'datalounge gay'. Meaning, some guys here want to fuck him.

I'm really interested in the possibility that Ann H was a Harvey girl. I really thought she'd be the type to cash in on all the #MeToo stuff and she has been uncharacteristically silent. So something is off. And then I read this article that she's selling her Westport mansion (which they'd only had for a few years) at a loss.

I'm now wondering if she only bought it to be closer to Harvey. You know for schmoozy BBQ's and other....things.

Remember in 2012 when Harvey asked her to 'co host' the Obama fundraiser at his home? At *his* house in Westport? Apparently she was seated next to him too.

I think we have ourselves a *deeply* committed Harvey Girl.

[quote]If he had a Shakespeare in Love or The English Patient recently, people would still be covering for him too.

No they wouldn't. It was a moment, an unstoppable news event, and he was not salvageable thanks to his Emperor Nero-esque uncontrolled and criminal degeneracy. He's also a cunt, who made legions of enemies.

There are of course others who the industry is trying very hard to protect, Empress Singer being the main one. Now that Singer's 'passion project' BR just won big at the GGs it'll be interesting to see if the long planned Esquire expose ever gets published. Spacey's interesting too. I feel the industry would make room for him again if he clears the legal hurdles he's facing right now. Attacking gay teens and gay men is not regarded with the same outrage as hetero assaults are.

R109 No one wants to fuck Affleck's old ass and he's gay

Harvey wasn't making money for Hollywood anymore so they decided to finish him

Ben Affleck may not be gay but his one, and only, true love will always be Matt Damon.

Why has Michelle Williams been so silent? All those Miramax Movies, all this Oscar nominations, the fact that she was sitting next to Harvey at the awards ..... she's literally sitting in his lap when Meryl called him God.

This is some foul shit.

The Weinstein Company Celebrates the Cast and Filmmakers of 'Sing Street,' 'Lion,' 'The Founder,' and 'Gold'

How many times was Flopman rewarded for a Weinstein/Miramax films?

Who's the woman in this photo?

Harvey, John Legend and John Legend's beard

Harvey Weinstein (L) and Zendaya attend the 12th annual CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards at Spring Studios on November 2, 2015 in New York City.

Halloween at [bold]Liv Tyler[/bold]'s House!

Liv Tyler's Halloween Party Featuring: Georgina Chapman, Harvey Weinstein Where: New York, United States When: 31 Oct 2015

How did Georgina Chapman escape this unharmed? I see her on Project Runway All Stars sitting next to Alyssa Milano and I keep thinking "Alyssa turn to her and say HOW COULD YOU HAVE NOT KNOWN?" and every time she opens her trap to criticize a designer I want one of them to shoot back "didn't your husband rape a lot of women?"

EVERYBODY KNEW.

No one in the industry us going to confront somebody unless they can use it for some personal gain, because THEY ALL KNEW.

It exists in every walk of life. It just happens to be called a “casting couch” in Hollywood. People have been sleeping with one another to get ahead since time began, since Paris judged Helen of Troy. It’s no big deal and it’s not a shock. People should just get over it.

[Quote] People should just get over it.

Does this include the ones that were raped or........?

Waltz won 2 Oscars for 2 Weinstein films

without Harvey's campaign doubt that he could win those

Prada And The Cinema Society Host A Screening Of The Weinstein Company's "The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby"

Queen Elizabeth II meets Harvey Weinstein during the Dramatic Arts reception at Buckingham Palace on February 17, 2014 in London, England.

Jared Leto in love

R131 - I always knew Liz was one of Harvey’s girls!

R133 lol

Keira Knightly? Harvey hit that?

Oh crap that stinks!

[bold]What Is Out There: There have been a lot of behind the scenes discussions between this disgraced producer and this A list mostly movie actress who is an Academy Award winner/nominee. Apparently there are multiple recordings of the two of them engaged in sexual activities. Also, it seems neither of them know where the recordings are. Our producer had one of his apartments wired for sound and video and captured sexual performances on the system regularly. When everything started going down, he had the stuff removed because he thought it would look bad if it came to light in the press. The thing is though, when it was being dismantled, someone also walked away with the storage bin which contained thousands of hours of video, including the trysts between the producer and the A lister. She is one of the very few people who even know of the existence of the recording system. If the recordings ever came to light, there would be a lot of shock and awe on the part of the other women who were recorded, many of whom have said nothing ever happened. They are lying, but also didn't know about the recording system when they said they lied. It is one of the reasons this A lister has not really given a definitive answer to whether she has engaged in sexual activities with the producer. She knows she can't say no until and unless all the recordings are discovered. The company that removed the system says they don't have them. Apparently their offices were broken into shortly after they did the removal. The thing is though, they don't have any record of moving the storage bin to their offices anyway. My guess is that the company the producer hires to fix things for him has it as insurance through the years. Jennifer Lawrence/Harvey Weinstein[/bold]

I wore a Marchesa wedding dress. Will I have to hang my head in shame forever?

R137, depends on which dress it was.

What about Mischa??

[quote] Harvey Weinstein is completely unfuckable. He probably has a jelly belly and a garbage dick. Any woman he harassed / assaulted is a fucking supermodel BY DEFAULT compared to that marshmallow, sexless, FAT-FUCK, gelatinous, waif-like thing in a suit.

Don't forget his huge face full of acne scars. Even his usual lazy-bum's- stubble-beard can't hide them.

If the rumored lezzie actresses fucked Harvey does that make them straight?

Is J-Law retiring or what?

She should make a guest appearance on that Lindsay's Mykonos brothel reality show.

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[quote]Rumors of Harvey’s casting couch ways are legendary.

I beg to differ! I didn’t know.

[quote]Renee Zellweger was a Harvey girl

Zellweger fucked him willingly.

I don't blame any woman for fucking him to help their career, I probably would have too in that situation.

whores

So did Julia Roberts

Is something else going to drop about Jennifer Lawrence or something? She's been photographed every other day kissing her new boyfriend looking like a normal young gal in love.

Sex tape incoming with Harvey? She's got no reason to be seen in public or promotion.

Audrey Tauto

She got the Amelie role even though the role was written for Emily Watson the director gave the bs excuses over the years that non were believable.

Watson was a big name at the time with 2 Oscar nominations and Tautou a French unknown actress.

Emily Watson's career has been suffering since then.

Watson hasn't said a word about Weinstein but she narrated a documentary about him.

R150 She's been photographed every other day kissing her new boyfriend

That is her bearding antics she's promoting herself as a hetero which she isn't

If she's gay who is she REALLY dating?

Easy for OP to say in hindsight. It's not true anymore.

This would have been impressive if OP had posted 15 years ago.

R154 The source article is from 9 years ago.

Kidman, Cotillard, Theron, Renee, Cruz, Hayek, Ayshwaria Rai, Amy Adams, Blanket (maybe), Liv Tyler (LOTR)

Jennifer Lawrence

Well, duh, r157. The difference is that Lawrence actually knew what she was doing, got David O. Russell all hot and bothered for her, and made it work for her. That's why she's been MIA in all the Harvey-bashing -- she got everything she wanted, and probably doesn't feel like a victim.

I will never understand what JLaw saw in David or why she put up with his bullshit.

How many Oscars does Jen have?

How many Oscars does Lily have?

Regardless of the fact that Tomlin is a thousand times the talent, if you want great parts and Oscars you fuck for them. Lawrence is lucky she's pretty, r159.

R160 She's not pretty she has good makeup artist.

Amy Adams and jennifer Lawrence both very thirsty.

Well she's certainly fuckable.

[Quote] if you want great parts and Oscars you fuck for them. Lawrence is lucky she's pretty, [R159].

You obviously dislike her, r161, but she's still quite pretty.

[Quote] You obviously dislike her

Lol you just described 80% of the DL.

There was a huge push for Blake Lively. She was everywhere and there were rumors that Harvey was was trying to hook her up with Ryan Gosling. Once she got together with Ryan Reynolds she disappeared.

Yes, dear, and most of that 80% (or perhaps less) would have no problem admitting that she's pretty.

R167 good thing she didn't get the lead for Gravity 😂

r109 This is why nobody belives anymore when someone is labelled "gay" in the datalounge.

R165 she's still quite pretty.

No she's not.

like Adelephant she has one of the best makeup artists ever lol

She's never been a bombshell but she's not fugly either. She's still cute, just needs to lay off the botox. And I don't think the nose job was really necessary.

OMG

'The Walking Dead' star admits she had heard rumours about actresses getting roles by performing sexual favours for Weinstein - who has been accused by multiple women of sexual assault and harassment.

She said: "I was on a job once and an actress was doing this part and then suddenly was removed from the film while another person was flown in overnight. The rumour was she'd given him a b**wjob for the part - that's what you needed to do to get in Harvey's gang."

Samantha is a real and honest maybe that's why she's not a big STAR!

Who? This Morton person is too ugly even for that pig Weinstein.

"Who? This Morton person is too ugly even for that pig Weinstein."

She is not ugly, Weinstein is ugly as fuck, like a troll under a bridge.

R176 She's not ugly but you are inside and outside.

She's ugly and looks like a man.

I wonder if Harvey really did have threesomes with Olivia Wilde? And Anne Hathaway living next door to Harvey in Connecticut and not saying anything bad about him thus far is interesting.

LOVE Sam Morton. Not only is she one of the biggest talents of her generation but she clearly gives no fucks and is always talking about the elephant in the room lol. Whether it be sexual misconduct on film sets, people being miscast (like Nicole Kidman), child abuse in the foster care system (of which she was a victim), etc.

I remember years ago (one of the earliest seasons) on Graham Norton he was holding up a DVD of her film and talking about how he loved the movie and she was like "that's a fake DVD... that's not even the real cover". She even grabbed the case and showed to the camera that it was empty. The audience laughed hysterically and he played it off well but you could tell Graham was a bit embarrassed.

R181 Which film did she say Nicole Kidman was miscast in?

R182 I can't remember if it was Fur or Margot at the Wedding or something around that time. I think her biggest criticism was that Nicole [and she mentioned others too] was a movie star who at the time was box office poison, and was still snatching up all the good indie roles and taking them from lesser-known actresses, even with her bad track record at the box office (so it's not like they were replacing Parker Posey with peak Julia Roberts or anything, if that makes sense).

She experienced her own bit of that I guess for the movie 'Her' where she sat crouched in a box on set as the computer voice and filmed for months and months with Joaquin Phoenix and Spike Jonze. After all that hard work they overdubbed her voice in post production in the space of a few days with the much bigger name (and sex symbol) Scarlett Johansson.

I can see Olivia Wilde sleeping with Harvey. She has a sensual, confident, edgy vibe about her. She seems like the type who'd be down for almost anything. She would probably think she had powerful over him instead of the over way around - so in her mind, she'd keep her feminist cred.

r184, That sounds like Olivia. I remember there used to be topless pics of her on the interwebs from a Burning Man she went to pre- The O.C. .

R41 posted this, but it bears repeating. (Olivia Wilde and Harvey Weinstein at basketball game.) Such an interesting facial expression and body position.

I get Olivia Wilde and Olivia Munn mixed up.

Very early in her career, Olivia Wilde worked for casting director Mali Finn. Apparently Finn told her to "be hotter" in her auditions if she wanted to make it in Hollywood (it all sounds like a thinly veiled "sleep around" kind of thing). Olivia said it took her 10 years to understand Finn's advice. That would've been around the same time she did that movie "Butter" with Harvey producing (which they took to the Toronto film festival). For a while after that, she was super chummy with Harvey.

R188 I'm sure her husband loved that.