Quentin Tarantino Says He ‘Knew Enough’ About Weinstein, Wishes He’d Done More
Since Harvey Weinstein has been in hot water, countless of male stars are coming out saying regretting they’d done more to stop him, including A-list director Quentin Tarantino.
“I knew enough to do more than I did,” Quentin told The New York Times. “There was more to it than just the normal rumors, the normal gossip. It wasn’t secondhand. I knew he did a couple of these things.”
He said that his ex, Mira Sorvino, and Rose McGowan had told him disgusting stories of the movie mogul, yet despite what he knew he didn’t realize these abuses were part of a larger pattern: “What I did was marginalize the incidents,” he said. “Anything I say now will sound like a crappy excuse.”
“I was shocked and appalled,” he told The Times. “I couldn’t believe he would do that so openly. I was like: ‘Really? Really?’ But the thing I thought then, at the time, was that he was particularly hung up on Mira.”
Because he was dating Mira, he didn’t think Harvey would interfere: “I’m with her, he knows that, he won’t mess with her, he knows that she’s my girlfriend.”
“Everyone who was close to Harvey had heard of at least one of those incidents,” he said. “It was impossible they didn’t.”