Ol’Otis
The Picasso of the Ghetto
https://pagesix.com/2017/10/17/director-i-got-fired-because-weinstein-thought-star-wasnt-f-kable/
A movie director says he was once booted from a film because producer Harvey Weinstein decided that the actress he picked to star in it wasn’t “f–kable.’’
“Harvey kept saying to me, ‘Do you think she is f–kable?’ That was what the deal was all the time,’’ Scottish filmmaker Michael Caton-Jones told BuzzFeed News.
“‘I said, ‘She is the best actress for the job, Harvey,’” Caton-Jones said, referring to now-acclaimed British actress Sophie Okonedo.
“And we started arguing about it. It was only when I said to Harvey, ‘Don’t screw up the casting of this film because you want to get laid,’ whereupon he went mental.”
The flick was the 1998 cult classic “B. Monkey.’’
Caton-Jones was eventually fired from his director’s post, and his lead-actress pick, Okonedo, never got the job.
The lead role instead went to actress Asia Argento — who is now among dozens of women accusing Weinstein of sexual abuse ranging from harassment to rape.
