Actress Kate Winslet thanked 19 people when she won an Oscar for The Reader in 2009. She says she deliberately didn't mention "nasty" Harvey Weinstein, whose company financed and distributed the movie.
"That was deliberate. That was absolutely deliberate," Winslet told La Times.
"The fact that I'm never going to have to deal with Harvey Weinstein again as long as I live is one of the best things that's ever happened and I'm sure the feeling is universal," Winslet added.
Winslet made her first movie, Peter Jackson's psychological drama Heavenly Creatures, for Weinstein's Miramax Films - a fact, Winslet says, that the disgraced producer brought up every time she saw him.
"But that's how he operated. He was bullying and nasty. Going on a business level, he was always very, very hard to deal with - he was rude. He used to call my female agent a (vulgar name for a woman) every time he spoke to her on the telephone."
When allegations of sexual assault and harassment against Weinstein broke earlier this month, Winslet was one of the first to condemn his actions.
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