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How Dogma Finally Escaped Harvey Weinstein
The disgraced mogul had kept the film out of theaters and off streaming since its release, until a surprise figure outmaneuvered him.
By last year, the hockey-jersey-loving, New Jersey–born writer-director had lost all faith that his ecclesiastical fantasy-comedy — which follows fallen angels (portrayed by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon) attempting to exploit a Catholic sin-forgiveness loophole to reenter heaven — would ever be sprung from the movies purgatory to which it had long been banished. A self-described yoga master and Method actress — who has appeared in supporting roles in such films as the 2020 Mark Wahlberg–starring Netflix action-comedy Spenser Confidential and the biblical drama Paul, Apostle of Christ, and who also wrote, directed, and starred in her own satirical mockumentary short Green Kola — Williams acknowledges she is an unlikely savior for Dogma. More crucially, she worked as an assistant to the producer Martin Bregman — whose long filmography includes Serpico, Scarface, and the Denzel Washington–Angelina Jolie two-hander The Bone Collector — learning the intricacies of development, film finance, foreign sales, and even Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences politicking under his mentorship.
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