Winona Ryder recalled a meeting with Harvey Weinstein, who is in prison right now for sexual assault, and how it had some not-so-good consequences. “The one time I was supposed to have a meeting with [Harvey Weinstein], I went to the Miramax office and I extended my hand and he shook my hand and I sat on the couch and we had a conversation and I left,” Ryder said, reflecting feeling blacklisted by Miramax in “the late 1990s and early 2000s” due to “various reasons.” “And [afterwards] I got like screamed at [by an agent].
‘What the fuck did you do?’ I was like, ‘What?’ Apparently, I offended him because I extended my hand?...
I guess.” At the time, Ryder had already worked on a Miramax movie, 1993’s The House of the Spirits , and recounted how Weinstein once pounded on her trailer door during production. She alleged him of being stubborn and wanted her to star in a film adaptation of the stage play Little Voice .
“And I was like, ‘Oh my God, I just saw that in London,’” Ryder said. “I was like, ‘You have to cast that girl [from the play], Jane Horrocks. She’s fucking amazing.
’ And he got very weird and he left.” “He did not like me,” Ryder added..