Lin-Manuel Miranda finally issued a statement on Harvey Weinstein
As I mentioned in a previous story, the Guardian compiled a list of prominent men in Hollywood who refused to comment publicly on the Harvey Weinstein situation. The Guardian’s list was of men who have professional contacts now or in the past with Weinstein or The Weinstein Company. After the Guardian published their story, the men did start speaking. George Clooney gave a lengthy interview to the Daily Beast. Other men have issued statements on Twitter. Lin Manuel Miranda was one of the men name-checked by the Guardian, and I wondered why at first, because I didn’t remember Lin having any kind of connection to Weinstein. As it turns out, TWC bought the rights to Lin’s In the Heights, the Tony-Award-winning musical Lin wrote before Hamilton. Apparently, people have been yelling at Lin on Twitter about Weinstein, and he finally said something:
Forgive me.
Just woke up to this–I'd asked my reps to keep any press non-🇵🇷relief-related off my desk.
That's my fault. http://bit.ly/2yWUnZd— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) October 10, 2017
I'm as appalled and repulsed by the Weinstein news as anyone with a beating heart. And forever in awe of the bravery of those who spoke out.
— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) October 10, 2017
Yeah. Some guys are more deserving of criticism than others. Lin wasn’t waiting until Weinstein was fired, he was literally devoting the past three weeks to trying to do everything he could do for Puerto Rico. I kind of feel like we should be apologizing to him for even demanding that he make a statement.
Also, I didn’t get a chance to fit this in anywhere else, but here’s the letter Weinstein sent to studio heads and CEOs before he was sh-tcanned.
JUST IN: Weinstein's desperate email to Hwood CEOs, moguls hours before his firing. Read to me by a disgusted (male) recipient http://pic.twitter.com/wQA64WcKf7
— Janice Min (@janicemin) October 9, 2017
Photos courtesy of Getty.
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