UNITED STATES
Huffington Post
December 17, 2017
By Dominique Mosbergen
Terry Zwigoff’s claim comes on the heels of a similar allegation made this week by “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson.
A second director has stepped forward this week with claims that Harvey and Bob Weinstein blacklisted actress Mira Sorvino and prevented her from being cast in films.
Terry Zwigoff, director of “Bad Santa,” wrote on Twitter on Saturday that he’d been interested in casting Sorvino in the 2003 comedy. Zwigoff alleged, however, that every time he mentioned her name “over the phone to the Weinsteins,” the sibling producers would immediately hang up.
“I’m really sorry Mira,” the director wrote.
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