Which explains her absence from the screen? He produced a number of her films including “Scandal” and “Jackie Brown.” Her aunt is of course, Jane Fonda, who knew all about Weinstein.
She left the industry to have a family. She's stated it multiple times. Plus she had multiple friends in the industry being a nepo baby and the wife of a famous movie composer.
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/video/danny-elfman-and-bridget-fonda-on-danny-presenting-the-news-footage/75806167
And I don't think Weinstein had that much pull with other companies. He couldn't walk into Warner Brothers HQ or 20th Century Fox or Universal and tell the ever-changing CEOs who to cast and who not to.
If they wanted to hire somebody, they would.
Joe Silver did and he and HW were good friends. Those two guys blacklisted more people than anyone else in Hollywood!
shareProbably refused to work with people he didn't like, but isn't that most of Hollywood. But to walk into other studios and bang fists on tables to not hire people is a bit of a stretch.
If a director/CEO/Studio wanted to hire the new hot young actor, they would. Harvey Weisntein wouldn't even be in the room when another studio is deciding who to cast.
Sometimes actors can blacklist themselves by getting a bad reputation, and they still end up getting work.
Ali Larter for example. Very difficult to work with, antagonistic on set. Still gets hired here and there. Not much in big budget movies because she killed her own career with her bad attitude over a period of time. Directors just want to work with easy people, that's why they always hire their friends and you see a lot of recurring actors in certain directors movies.
Maybe Harvey could start the ball rolling to spread a rumour that an actor is difficult to work with, but then they have to be proven to be difficult to work with a few times before they get ushered out of the industry because no director wants to work with them.
To say Harvey can march into any casting room for any studio and tell any director not to hire somebody, and this lasts indefinitely, is a big stretch of the imagination when you really think about it.
Now, Miramax may have had a hand in Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino not being cast for Lord of the Rings. But Lord of the Rings was going to be made by Miramax and went through many stages of pre-production.
https://fellowshipoffans.com/news/the-many-revisions-of-the-peter-jackson-films/
Peter Jackson says he was advised that these actresses were difficult to work with. Probably during his time with Lord of the Rings at Miramax. And he decided to take the bait and not hire them. He could have chosen otherwise.
So Harvey could lose them hires within his company, if he's producing the movie, and he advises the director not to hire them. But he can't cover every studio and every single director out there to "blacklist" somebody out of the industry for the rest of time.
I don't think so.
Off the top of my head, I think she just quit.
Married that Elfman guy, had a baby - decided she wanted to stay home.
She wasn't red hot anymore (by the time the 2000s rolled around), but she was still a working actress.
She was getting roles. I believe the story - she preferred to stay home with her new baby, it was her choice.
Elfman wanted here to be a stay at home mom. It’s. Jewish thing.
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