“I know that in 2003, Weinstein panicked when The Pianist won two BAFTAs, including Best Film,” Polanski told Paris Match.
Roman Polanski has claimed Harvey Weinstein is responsible for ruining his reputation, and that one of his employees was “the first to call me a child rapist”.
After spending 42 days undergoing psychiatric evaluation ahead of sentencing, Polanski fled to Paris, where he remains to this day.
The filmmaker claimed in an interview that Weinstein orchestrated the resurfacing of Polanski’s charges for statutory rape, in an attempt to spoil the Oscar chances of his 2002 film The Pianist.