Lucy Prebble: Harvey Weinstein
The LRB Podcast
London Review of Books
4.4 • 581 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2017
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:16.7 | A big part of a producer's job is getting people to do things they don't want to do. |
| 0:22.3 | I thought about this when the open secret about Harvey Weinstein and his treatment of women broke. |
| 0:27.5 | Everybody has a Harvey story. |
| 0:29.7 | Mine is unlurid but revealing. |
| 0:32.9 | I was attending a reading of a new musical for Broadway, |
| 0:36.2 | and afterwards I was introduced to Harvey. |
| 0:38.6 | I felt a familiar wave of something when he shook my hand. |
| 0:42.7 | Hard to place, but located in my youth somehow, something primal. |
| 0:48.1 | I invested in your show, he grinned. |
| 0:51.9 | Ah, I can only apologise,' I replied, |
| 0:55.3 | "'referring to the failure of my play Enron on Broadway. |
| 0:58.5 | "'I sensed he liked me. |
| 1:01.4 | "'And so it proved. |
| 1:03.0 | "'And though I can't say I liked him, |
| 1:05.3 | "'I recognised him, |
| 1:06.7 | "'and it can be hard to tell the good from the familiar. |
| 1:10.1 | "'High-powered men tend to be conspiratorial by nature. |
| 1:12.9 | That's how they become powerful. |
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