The CurrentWar filmmaker tells V.F. he was locked in conflict with Weinstein for years: “I have so much PTSD.”
to Gomez-Rejon—was very much Weinstein’s, according to the director, and was met with negative reviews. On the phone withGomez-Rejon was reluctant to revisit the Weinstein chapters of this production process. “I’ve been focused on the good because it was so hard for so long,” he explained of the journey. “I have so much PTSD, I can’t tell you.”closing in on Weinstein’s alleged history of sexual harassment. “You get a sense of why my film was being so tortured,” Gomez-Rejon explained.
After the Toronto Film Festival rollout, there was no way the filmmaker could explain to festival audiences what had happened. “It was just absolute pain and uncertainty,” Gomez-Rejon explained of the reaction. The saga turned worse, still, when the Weinstein Companythe following year. At that point Gomez-Rejon had no way of knowing whether his film would even see the light of day.
While other filmmakers might have moved on, Gomez-Rejon couldn’t—and kept a list of scenes on his desk that he hoped to reshoot should he ever get the chance to do so. “I couldn’t let this go because that would mean that I had accepted that [Weinstein’s version] ofwas final. That would have meant saying goodbye to this, and I wasn’t ready to do that yet.
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