Mira Sorvino Talks About Being Blacklisted for 20 Years

Mira Sorvino suggested he would have had a “huge” Hollywood career had he not been “blacklisted” by the disappointed producer. Harvey Weinstein.

“I was sentenced to 20 years,” Sorvino said in the Wednesday, March 18, episode Sophia Bush‘s “Work in Progress” podcast. “I haven’t made a studio film in 20 years.”

Sorvino was a rising star in the late 1990s, winning the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1995. Powerful Aphrodite. While following up his Oscar win with an appearance Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion again ImitateSorvino told Bush he paid a price for rejecting Weinstein’s advances.

“I actually rejected Harvey three times when I was talking to him Ronan Farrow [for a New Yorker article in 2017]I forgot about the third time,” he explained, “It came to mind later. It was shortly after that for the third time [Harvey] I put the kibosh on my career and he blacklisted me for 20 years.”

Sorvino was one of more than 80 women who came forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against Weinstein in 2017. New Yorker that Weinstein ruined his career when he rejected his advances several times in the 1990s.

The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson supported Sorvino’s prosecution, telling Things.co.nz in December 2017 that executives at Weinstein’s company Miramax told Sorvino again Ashley Judd – who also accused the producer of misconduct – “it was a nightmare to work with and we should avoid it at all costs.” (Weinstein denied that Sorvino and Judd were banned.)

“At the time, we had no reason to question what these guys were telling us,” recalls Jackson, 64. “Now I suspect we were fed false information about both of these talented women – and as a result their names were removed from our cast list.”

In his new interview with Bush, Sorvino revealed that he will only play major roles in two major Hollywood movies in the wake of the #MeToo movement.

“I was still working … doing indies and doing television,” she said. “I could have an officer
a career in television maybe, but I have four children and I really wanted to be there for them.”

Sorvino also offered his support for convicted sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein after the release of the Epstein Files. (Epstein committed suicide at the age of 66 in 2019 after being arrested for sex crimes.)

“There’s a second wave of that grief and heartbreak right now because of the Epstein Files,” the actor said. “And I think we all feel sad for all the victims, living and dead, of this horrible, horrible culture of abuse and total lack of morality and lawlessness and abomination and robbery. [behavior].”

Weinstein will go on trial for a third time in New York City later this year on multiple counts of sexual assault. His original conviction in New York was overturned in 2024 and the second trial ended with the actor’s third rape. Jessica Mann. (Weinstein has denied any wrongdoing.)

In addition to his New York trial, Weinstein was convicted of rape, forced oral sex, and incest on separate charges in Los Angeles in 2022.

If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).