Matt Damon Knew Harvey Weinstein Was A POS But Allowed The Perv To Hook Him Up With A Three-Movie Deal Anyway

You’re sick of the Harvey Weinstein crap. I’m sick of the Harvey Weinstein crap. We’re all sick of the Harvey Weinstein crap.

But here’s the thing. The outrage will subside. Nothing will change. Heck, Woody Allen’s latest movie is all about an older dude sleeping around with a teenager and other actresses. And actresses– like Rebecca Hall, Elle Fanning, Suki Waterhouse, Kelly Rohrbach and Selena Gomez– are willingly participating. Yep– WILLINGLY participating in this KNOWN PERVERT’S movie.

That’s why I have my doubts that anything will ever really change.

But for now, let’s continue the “witch hunt.” That’s for you, Woody!

Matt Damon totally knew Weinstein was a pervy jerk and didn’t do a darn thing about it. He actually KNEW that he harassed Gwyneth Paltrow. Her boyfriend at the time, Brad Pitt, confronted Weinstein.

Damon knew about this but kept quiet. But in his defense… so did all of Hollywood.

“I knew the story about Gwyneth from Ben because he was with her after Brad [Pitt], so I knew that story,” Damon said Monday on ABC News. “I never talked to Gwyneth about it, Ben told me. But I knew that they had come to whatever, you know, agreement or understanding that they had come to, she had handled it. She was, you know, the first lady of Miramax. And he treated her incredibly respectfully.”

 

Weinstein, who back then headed Miramax Films, was proud of his bad-boy rap in Hollywood.

“So people say, ‘everybody knew,’ like, yeah I knew,” Damon explained. “I knew he was an a–hole, he was proud of that. That’s how he carried himself. I knew he was a womanizer. I wouldn’t want to be married to the guy. But the criminal sexual predation is not something that I ever thought was going on. Absolutely not.”

 

Damon, who got his big break in Hollywood starring alongside Affleck in the Miramax-produced “Good Will Hunting,” said Weinstein hooked him up with a three-movie deal but that he never worked with him again after that.

 

“You had to spend about five minutes with him to know that he was a bully. He was intimidating,” Damon said. “Miramax was the place, really the place, that was making great stuff in the ’90s. And it was like, ‘Could you survive Harvey?’”

But that movie deal though, right Damon? That made his behavior all too easy to overlook?

Ridiculous.

h/t Page Six