The first time Jennifer Lee met with Weinstein, she tells me it was at his infamous Peninsula Hotel suite and he was, in fact, wearing his infamous bathrobe. “Now, I aged out,” she says, confirming that nothing else happened, “but it was still inappropriate. I don’t let my gardener see me in my bathrobe. I mean come on, it’s a business meeting, dude!”

At one point, they were greenlit to move forward with Lee Daniels directing, comedian Mike Epps playing Richard, and names like Eddie Murphy and Oprah Winfrey attached to play his father and grandmother, respectively. But when Daniels had to back out to focus on Empire, it all fell apart.

“You know what was happening?” Jennifer Lee says. “All Harvey was good at was making fucking announcements.” She says she won’t be announcing anything else about the film until it is real. “It was just a lot of bullshit, at the end of the day,” she says. “Harvey was good at that. He was a marketing genius, let’s be honest. But if that’s all you’re doing? And that’s what it felt like to me.”

Right now, she’s thinking that they will try to get an unknown actor to play Richard, but has some thoughts about who could play her. Kate Hudson was in the mix for a bit, but she has even bigger names in mind, including some women who are a bit older than she was when she met Richard in 1977.

“Gosh, you know, Charlize Theron, I love her. Somebody with that kind of edginess, who can take a punch, sorry but literally, yeah,” Jennifer Lee says. “Nicole Kidman. God, she’s so incredible. And she looks amazing. Can you play 28, bitch? Let’s go!”