'Want to be rid of Weinstein's 'toxicity' on the current war'
25 April 2018 3:38 PM GMT
London: The Current War, starring Benedict Cumberbatch was one of the films that suffered the most due to the Harvey Weinstein scandal, but the actor is "fine" as it will help the film get rid of the "toxicity" of the disgraced producer. The film, which focuses on the rivalry between legendary scientists Thomas Edison (Cumberbatch) and George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon), has been shelved with no new release date in sight.
"If it takes us not releasing our film for a couple of years just to be rid of that toxicity, I'm fine with that... (He wants to) To step back and be as far removed from that influence as possible, both as filmmaker and as human being," Cumberbatch told The Telegraph.
The actor previously worked with Weinstein on the 2014 film, The Imitation Game" which received eight nods at the 87th Academy Awards, including Best actor for Cumberbatch. The actor described Weinstein as "lascivious".
"I wouldn't want to be married to him Gaudy in his tastes, for all his often-brilliant film-making ability," he said. But the actor made it clear that he knew nothing about Weinsein's alleged sexual transgressions.
"But did I know that was going on? A systematic abuse of women, happening through bribery, coercion, trying to gain empathy, to physical force and threats, physical and to career? No. That was the true shock. That this has just literally happened. And it's been covered up by an entire body of
people," he said.
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