Former American filmmaker Harvey Weinstein needs no introduction. The name recognition of the filmmaker isn’t because of his contribution to the film industry, but his involvement in some notorious deeds. Ever since Weinstein was convicted as a s*x offender, his image was doomed in the industry.
Previously, during an interview, renowned Mexican filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro explained his awful experience working with Weinstein. Del Toro was so disgusted with working alongside Weinstein. The two filmmakers collaborated on the 1997 film The Mimic. While filming, Del Toro despised working with Weinstein so much that he compared his work experience with his dad’s kidnapping and found it still sensible.
Guillermo Del Toro despised working alongside Harvey Weinstein
The Mexican filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro is renowned for some of his incredible work in the film industry. Previously, during an interview, the filmmaker shared his awful experience of working on his first English film.
Del Toro collaborated with American film producer Harvey Weinstein for the film Mimic. However, Del Toro did indeed make a terrible mistake by joining hands with Weinstein. Del Toro described his experience working alongside Weinstein as “horrible”.
The filmmaker was so disgusted after working with Weinstein, that he claimed that his father’s kidnapping still made sense to him, but working with Weinstein was indeed the most terrible thing. The Shape of Water director said,
“I really hated the experience. My first American experience was almost my last because it was with the Weinsteins and Miramax. I have got to tell you, two horrible things happened in the late nineties, my father was kidnapped and I worked with the Weinsteins. I know which one was worse… the kidnapping made more sense, I knew what they wanted.”
DelToro faced a hard phase when, in 1998, his father was abducted by bandits in Guadalajara. After 72 days, he returned to his home, however, the horror of the incident always haunted Del Toro’s family, so they decided to leave Mexico.
What lesson did Guillermo Del Toro learn after working with Harvey Weinstein?
A hundred bad days make gives hundred good stories. However, in Guillermo Del Toro’s case, he perhaps didn’t get anything good after working with Harvey Weinstein, but he definitely learned a lesson from his experience.
During the interview, the director said that, though dealing with Weinstein was indeed hard, it taught him how to fight. While working on Mimics, the director was restricted from filming certain scenes. However, he didn’t care much about anyone’s opinion and did as he pleased to rebel against Weinstein’s rule. Del Toro said,
“I don’t know if this is much of an achievement, but it felt like one. I lost casting battles, I lost story battles but the one thing ‘Mimic’ is visually 100% exactly what I wanted. The movie is visually gorgeous, and it has a couple of sequences I’m very proud of.”
Though Del Toro’s first experience of filming his first English movie wasn’t great, what ultimately matters is that he was content with his work.
Source: Indie Wire
