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Playwright Reveals New Work Inspired By “Haunting Encounters With Disgraced Harvey Weinstein”
The Jerusalem playwright previously punched Weinstein.
Award-winning dramatist Jez Butterworth has revealed that his new play is part-inspired by his encounters with disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein. The British playwright, who previously penned The Ferryman and Jerusalem as well as Sky Atlantic drama Britannia, told the BBC’s Front Row radio show that his experience with Weinstein – when the pair worked together on the 2001 Birthday Girl starring Nicole Kidman – has stayed with him and influenced his writing on The Hills of California. When the accusations against Weinstein were made public in 2017, Butterworth read out an open letter on the BBC’s Newsnight programme, urging him to “think of all those little 11-year-old girls, over decades, whose singular talents you have taken advantage of, whose dreams you have decisively and for ever defined.”
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