“I really took that to heart.”
“It wasn’t an assault.
But it was incredibly inappropriate.
Winona Ryder.Credit:Elisabetta A. Villa/Getty
I really understand [what the victims ofHarvey Weinsteinand others went through].”
You’re working it out while this person is being extremely creepy."
She eventually became accustomed to shutting down unwanted advances.
Winona Ryder and Michael Keaton in ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’.Warner Bros. Pictures
“If someone was being inappropriate or drunkenly hitting on me it was like, ‘Ha ha!’
You kind of do that.
‘Ha ha!'”
Winona Ryder; Harvey Weinstein.Getty(2)
I dealt with that.
It felt very invasive."
The harassment took a serious toll on the actress and her perception of Hollywood.
“I think in retrospect, it really soured [her on making movies],” she confessed.
I really took that to heart."
‘What the f did you do?’
I was like, ‘What?’
Apparently, I offended him because I extended my hand?"
When asked if Weinstein was “expecting something else,” Ryder replied, “I guess.”
“I was like, ‘Oh my God, I just saw that in London.’
I was like, ‘You have to cast that girl [from the play], Jane Horrocks.
She’s fucking amazing,'” Ryder recalled.
“And he got very weird and he left.”
(Horrocks later played the part of Little Voice in the adaptation.)
Ryder spent some time out of the spotlight after she wasarrested for shoplifting from Saks Fifth Avenuein 2001.
[This article has been updated with comment from a rep for Harvey Weinstein.]
