The film producer affirmed, through spokespersons, that witnesses "understood the facts differently", about alleged S- demands described by the Mexican actress.
The reviled Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein rejected the accusations made by the Mexican actress Salma Hayek, who in a hard article published by "The New York Times" defined him as "her monster of hers".
"All allegations of S- content, as presented by Salma, are inaccurate, and were understood differently by others who witnessed the events," a Weinstein spokesperson said in a statement to the magazine.
The 51-year-old actress recounts in the article entitled "Harvey Weinstein is also my monster" the hell she suffered throughout the production, filming, and distribution process of the biopic "Frida" -focused on the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo- since the tycoon became part of the project.
According to her, she maintains, Weinstein tried to force her to shower with him or watch him shower with her, to have the producer give him a massage, or to perform oral S- on him. Faced with her repeated refusals, he reacted with "fits of rage" and even threatened to kill her.
The pressure was such that Hayek finally agreed to film a frontal scene with another woman, which due to her background caused him a "nervous breakdown". However, according to Weinstein's spokesman, Weinstein "does not remember" such pressures and denies that the L- scene was free.
However, the tycoon does acknowledge "creative friction, as in most collaborative projects", and having had "rude behavior" after a screening of the film due to the editing, for which he affirms that he had an impact with a "firm hand" on the final assembly.
In his article, Hayek however accused him of trying to boycott the film by refusing to release it theatrically because he didn't consider it good enough. "Frida" ended up being released and took two of the six Oscars for which she was nominated.
