In a new interview, Angelina Jolie further opened up about her experience with convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein, sharing that she turned down a role in Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator” to avoid working with him.“If you get yourself out of the room, you think he attempted but didn’t, right?” the actress told The Guardian while reflecting on shooting the Weinstein-produced “Playing by Heart” in 1998 at age 21.
“The truth is that the attempt and the experience of the attempt is an assault.”Jolie has spoken on her experience with Weinstein before as a “bad experience,” but now labels it an assault — and said that it was difficult for her when her former husband, Brad Pitt, continued to work with him.“It was beyond a pass, it was something I had to escape.
I stayed away and warned people about him.
I remember telling Jonny, my first husband, who was great about it,
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