# ...Peter Jackson on Weinstein: "they were a nightmare to work with" "avoid them at all costs" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 15, 2017, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-on-weinstein-they-were-a-nightmare-to-work-with-avoid-them-at-all-costs/804594 "2017-12-15T23:24:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-on-weinstein-they-were-a-nightmare-to-work-with-avoid-them-at-all-costs/804594/1 "2017-12-15T23:24:41Z")
…I think this deserves a new thread because this isn’t just about Weinstein: its about how easy it is for those with power (both in Hollywood and beyond) to shut down careers with just a few words. > [@](#): > > “I recall Miramax telling us they were a nightmare to work with and we should avoid them at all costs. This was probably in 1998,” Jackson said. > > "At the time, we had no reason to question what these guys were telling us - but in hindsight, I realise that this was very likely the Miramax smear campaign in full swing. > > “I now suspect we were fed false information about both of these talented women - and as a direct result their names were removed from our casting list.” [https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/99921399/sir-peter-jackson-harvey-weinstein-made-me-blacklist-stars](https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/99921399/sir-peter-jackson-harvey-weinstein-made-me-blacklist-stars) And the reactions from Sorvino and Judd: > [@](#): > > Sorvino: “Just seeing this after I awoke, I burst out crying. There it is, confirmation that Harvey Weinstein derailed my career, something I suspected but was unsure. Thank you Peter Jackson for being honest. I’m just heartsick.” > > Judd: “Peter & Fran had me in - showed me all the creative, the boards, costumes, everything. They asked which if the two roles I preferred, and then I abruptly never heard from hem again. I appreciate the truth coming out. Thank you, Peter.” [https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/99885932/sir-peter-jackson-breaks-silence-on-harvey-weinstein](https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/99885932/sir-peter-jackson-breaks-silence-on-harvey-weinstein) It wasn’t just Weinstein. Rae Dawn Chong talks about after an unfortunate encounter with Steven Seagal all of a sudden she became [“difficult to work with.”](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/hollywood-lawyers-up-harassment-claims-who-knew-what-1055993) And I suspect there are hundreds, if not thousands, of similar stories out there from people that are household names to people that we’ve never heard of before. To all those lamenting the loss of “talent” like Spacey and Louis CK you should really be lamenting the blacklisting of talent like Sorvino and Judd. When you have “Hollywood liberals” like Matt Damon expressing opinions like [this](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/matt-damon-opens-harvey-weinstein-sexual-harassment-confidentiality/story?id=51792548)then it becomes apparent to me that we have to “tear it all down.” Its 2017. I remember when I was arguing with people about sexism in Silicon Valley and people were insistent that women (and minorities) were under-represented in the tech industry because they were under-represented at the schools and universities: fix the “pipeline” and you fix under-representation. But half of all film school graduates are women. [But only 2% of big budget films are directed by women.](http://www.mtv.com/news/2159771/female-directors-college/) There isn’t a problem with the pipeline. The people that control the business of Hollywood are simply looking after their own. Only one female director has ever won the Oscar for best director. Only four women have ever been nominated. The Golden Globes this year had zero women director nominees. No Greta Gerwig, no Patty Jenkins, no Dees Rees. The industry needs to change and now is the right time to do it. (This post has already turned into more of a rant than intended, so before I go any further I may just click “submit new thread” and I’ll come rant again later. 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-on-weinstein-they-were-a-nightmare-to-work-with-avoid-them-at-all-costs/804594/2 "2017-12-15T23:45:10Z")
Yes, this is really fucked up. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-on-weinstein-they-were-a-nightmare-to-work-with-avoid-them-at-all-costs/804594/3 "2017-12-15T23:58:57Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > Its 2017. I remember when I was arguing with people about sexism in Silicon Valley and people were insistent that women (and minorities) were under-represented in the tech industry because they were under-represented at the schools and universities: fix the “pipeline” and you fix under-representation. But half of all film school graduates are women. [But only 2% of big budget films are directed by women.](http://www.mtv.com/news/2159771/female-directors-college/) There isn’t a problem with the pipeline. The people that control the business of Hollywood are simply looking after their own. Only one female director has ever won the Oscar for best director. Only four women have ever been nominated. The Golden Globes this year had zero women director nominees. No Greta Gerwig, no Patty Jenkins, no Dees Rees. The industry needs to change and now is the right time to do it. I remember being shocked when I read that _Wonder Woman_ was only Patty Jenkins’ second movie as a director. She directed _Monster_ in 2003 and it was a commercial and critical hit. And then she wasn’t offered another directing job for fourteen years. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-on-weinstein-they-were-a-nightmare-to-work-with-avoid-them-at-all-costs/804594/4 "2017-12-16T00:10:59Z")
…from the Salma Hayek: > [@](#): > > I was hoping he would acknowledge me as a producer, who on top of delivering his list of demands shepherded the script and obtained the permits to use the paintings. I had negotiated with the Mexican government, and with whomever I had to, to get locations that had never been given to anyone in the past — including Frida Kahlo’s houses and the murals of Kahlo’s husband, Diego Rivera, among others. > > But all of this seemed to have no value. The only thing he noticed was that I was not sexy in the movie. He made me doubt if I was any good as an actress, but he never succeeded in making me think that the film was not worth making. > > He offered me one option to continue. He would let me finish the film if I agreed to do a sex scene with another woman. And he demanded full-frontal nudity. > > … > > I had to say yes. By now so many years of my life had gone into this film. We were about five weeks into shooting, and I had convinced so many talented people to participate. How could I let their magnificent work go to waste? > > … > > I arrived on the set the day we were to shoot the scene that I believed would save the movie. And for the first and last time in my career, I had a nervous breakdown: My body began to shake uncontrollably, my breath was short and I began to cry and cry, unable to stop, as if I were throwing up tears. > > Since those around me had no knowledge of my history of Harvey, they were very surprised by my struggle that morning. It was not because I would be naked with another woman. It was because I would be naked with her for Harvey Weinstein. But I could not tell them then. > **[Opinion | Harvey Weinstein Is My Monster Too (Published 2017)](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/13/opinion/contributors/salma-hayek-harvey-weinstein.html)** > > He threatened to shut down “Frida” if I didn’t comply with his demands. That scene in Frida was so out-of-place. How many other scenes like that have been added to movies at the whim of a director or producer? ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-on-weinstein-they-were-a-nightmare-to-work-with-avoid-them-at-all-costs/804594/5 "2017-12-16T00:28:49Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I remember being shocked when I read that _Wonder Woman_ was only Patty Jenkins’ second movie as a director. She directed _Monster_ in 2003 and it was a commercial and critical hit. And then she wasn’t offered another directing job for fourteen years. > [@](#): > > “You should fuck her to make her realize she’s gay.” He said this about me during a cast and crew “meet and greet” before we began filming, X Men: The Last Stand. I was eighteen years old. He looked at a woman standing next to me, ten years my senior, pointed to me and said: “You should fuck her to make her realize she’s gay.” He was the film’s director, Brett Ratner. [https://www.facebook.com/EllenPage/posts/10155212835577449](https://www.facebook.com/EllenPage/posts/10155212835577449) …directors like Brett Ratner made about four blockbuster movies in the time that Patty Jenkins made zero along with a succession of smaller-but-high-profile projects. And he has 68 producing credits to his name. Yet nothing he has directed nor produced comes close to the majesty of Wonder Woman. So much talent ignored and forgotten about by an industry that looks after their own. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-on-weinstein-they-were-a-nightmare-to-work-with-avoid-them-at-all-costs/804594/6 "2017-12-16T01:20:35Z")
So now Miranda Otto and Liv Tyler are thinking, “I only got the part in (so far) the biggest movies of my life because of Weinstein’s lie.” Yuck. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-on-weinstein-they-were-a-nightmare-to-work-with-avoid-them-at-all-costs/804594/7 "2017-12-16T01:26:54Z")
Now I’m wondering… Linda Fiorentino, who seemed to do a good enough job in _Men In Black_, wasn’t in the sequel, despite the first ending with a pretty clear set-up for her continuing with the franchise. At the time, I’d heard it was because the other actors and director found her really hard to work with. Was she actually? ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-on-weinstein-they-were-a-nightmare-to-work-with-avoid-them-at-all-costs/804594/8 "2017-12-16T01:57:40Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Was she actually? The scuttlebut was that Tommy Lee Jones refused to work with her again( he himself has a reputation for being “difficult” on sets ). She claims she was simply unavailable. Hard to say where the truth lies on that one, but Kevin Smith has been open about hating working with her on _Dogma_. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-on-weinstein-they-were-a-nightmare-to-work-with-avoid-them-at-all-costs/804594/9 "2017-12-16T01:59:55Z")
Didn’t Jackson walk away from Weinstein’s Miramax after too many demands for changes from the studio, including cutting back to two movies, or even one movie? LOTR ended up being a New Line production. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-on-weinstein-they-were-a-nightmare-to-work-with-avoid-them-at-all-costs/804594/10 "2017-12-16T06:06:26Z")
I always wondered why Mira Sorvino’s career never seemed to go anywhere after her Oscar win for “Mighty Aphrodite”. She seemed to have it all: great looks, acting chops, famous dad, Harvard-educated, etc. I can’t even recall anything she did after that except for “Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion” and “Mimic”. It would be a damned shame if her career had been cut short due to Weinstein’s sour grapes, as it appears to be. She surely deserved better. Fortunately, it seems her off-screen life has been fulfilling, but… fuck Harvey Weinstein. ---
**Author:** ![ssgenius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@ssgenius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ssgenius)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-on-weinstein-they-were-a-nightmare-to-work-with-avoid-them-at-all-costs/804594/11 "2017-12-16T06:38:01Z")
Only one female director has ever won the Oscar for best director. Only four women have ever been nominated. The Golden Globes this year had zero women director nominees. No Greta Gerwig, no Patty Jenkins, no Dees Rees. The industry needs to change and now is the right time to do it. (This post has already turned into more of a rant than intended, so before I go any further I may just click “submit new thread” and I’ll come rant again later. 🙂 ) [/QUOTE] More of a producer than director - but Kathleen Kennedy has been quite successful One item about guys in general - they are more conquest or task oriented than woman and may be better suited to the director/producer role by their very nature. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-on-weinstein-they-were-a-nightmare-to-work-with-avoid-them-at-all-costs/804594/12 "2017-12-16T07:59:47Z")
> [@ssgenius](#): > > One item about guys in general - they are more conquest or task oriented than woman and may be better suited to the director/producer role by their very nature. Yes, this is a very sensible explanation. Also, women are more breakfast and laundry oriented and may be better suited to making me breakfast and doing my laundry. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-on-weinstein-they-were-a-nightmare-to-work-with-avoid-them-at-all-costs/804594/13 "2017-12-16T08:24:28Z")
Weinstein was an absolote arsehole. Not just sexually, but in his personal dealings. People\* hated\* him. Here from [a decade ago](http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/9985/). As for Mira Sorvino. Weinstein or no Weinsetin. She was a limited actress. I doubt his (atrocious) treatment stopped her in the long term. Patty Jenkins put on the brakes to be a full time mother. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-on-weinstein-they-were-a-nightmare-to-work-with-avoid-them-at-all-costs/804594/14 "2017-12-16T10:58:23Z")
> [@ssgenius](#): > > Only one female director has ever won the Oscar for best director. Only four women have ever been nominated. The Golden Globes this year had zero women director nominees. No Greta Gerwig, no Patty Jenkins, no Dees Rees. The industry needs to change and now is the right time to do it. > > (This post has already turned into more of a rant than intended, so before I go any further I may just click “submit new thread” and I’ll come rant again later. 🙂 ) > [@](#): > > More of a producer than director - but Kathleen Kennedy has been quite successful …In 89 years only 5 women have been nominated for an Oscar for best director. 437 men have been nominated. I’m well aware that Kathleen Kennedy has had a successful career as a producer. She is also one of the people who is not giving opportunities to women to direct. She is part of the establishment: a gate-keeper, and is every bit part of the problem. > [@](#): > > One item about guys in general - they are more conquest or task oriented than woman and may be better suited to the director/producer role by their very nature. Utter nonsense. Guys in general are more task orientated than women? Really? Being conquest-orientated makes you a better director? Directors aren’t fighting a war. Chris Hemsworth had this to say about working on Thor Ragnarok. “This was the best experience I’ve ever had on a set,” Mark Rufflalo said “Yeah… Me too,”. It wasn’t a great experience because the director (Taika Waititi) was “conquest-orientated” because he wasn’t. Taika gave the actors and everybody on set respect. He welcomed families on set. They played music between takes. They filmed the script as written: then gave the actors agency to improvise as well. He incorporated aspects of Aboriginal and Maori culture into both the movie and into the production. Being conquest-orientated doesn’t make a successful film and it doesn’t mean men are better suited to the role of director than women. Women are about 50% of the population: they make up about 50% of everybody graduating film school, yet only 2% of blockbusters are directed by women. Do you think your theory explains the discrepancy? You do know that women want to direct, and they want to direct blockbusters, and they are just as talented (if not more so) than guys like Colin Trevorrow or Phil Lord or Chris Miller but they aren’t being given the opportunity? ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-on-weinstein-they-were-a-nightmare-to-work-with-avoid-them-at-all-costs/804594/15 "2017-12-16T11:17:04Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Weinstein was an absolote arsehole. Not just sexually, but in his personal dealings. People\* hated\* him. Here from [a decade ago](http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/9985/). I recall Adam Carolla saying something about the Weinsteins making use of Hollywood accounting in relation Adam’s movie [The Hammer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hammer_(2007_film)). Something like “everybody knows when you deal with the Weinsteins that you’re gonna get ripped off” or “you’re never gonna get paid.” ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-on-weinstein-they-were-a-nightmare-to-work-with-avoid-them-at-all-costs/804594/16 "2017-12-16T11:19:40Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > As for Mira Sorvino. Weinstein or no Weinsetin. She was a limited actress. I doubt his (atrocious) treatment stopped her in the long term. …Peter Jackson obviously had a different opinion of Sorvino’s acting ability than yours. This thread really isn’t about Weinstein’s atrocious treatment of Sorvino because it wasn’t his treatment of her that stopped her “long term.” She was probably going to be cast in three of the biggest movies of all time but that opportunity was taken away from her because of the “Miramax smear campaign”. We are talking a huge paycheck. Residuals. It would be a significant casting on her resume. Many of the cast of LOTR talk about how the experience on set was “life changing.” All of that was denied her because Miramax were telling people not to hire her. Lets not pretend that this only happened once, and that it only happened to Sorvino and Judd. And lets not pretend that the actions of Miramax didn’t effectively scuttle her career. > [@](#): > > Patty Jenkins put on the brakes to be a full time mother. That doesn’t explain Debra Granik. Or Lexi Alexander. Or Catherine Hardwicke. Or Lynne Ramsay. Or Brenda Chapman. ---
**Author:** ![ssgenius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@ssgenius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ssgenius)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-on-weinstein-they-were-a-nightmare-to-work-with-avoid-them-at-all-costs/804594/17 "2017-12-16T15:12:42Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > …In 89 years only 5 women have been nominated for an Oscar for best director. 437 men have been nominated. I’m well aware that Kathleen Kennedy has had a successful career as a producer. She is also one of the people who is not giving opportunities to women to direct. She is part of the establishment: a gate-keeper, and is every bit part of the problem. > > Utter nonsense. Guys in general are more task orientated than women? Really? Being conquest-orientated makes you a better director? > > Directors aren’t fighting a war. Chris Hemsworth had this to say about working on Thor Ragnarok. “This was the best experience I’ve ever had on a set,” Mark Rufflalo said “Yeah… Me too,”. It wasn’t a great experience because the director (Taika Waititi) was “conquest-orientated” because he wasn’t. Taika gave the actors and everybody on set respect. He welcomed families on set. They played music between takes. They filmed the script as written: then gave the actors agency to improvise as well. He incorporated aspects of Aboriginal and Maori culture into both the movie and into the production. > > Being conquest-orientated doesn’t make a successful film and it doesn’t mean men are better suited to the role of director than women. Women are about 50% of the population: they make up about 50% of everybody graduating film school, yet only 2% of blockbusters are directed by women. Do you think your theory explains the discrepancy? You do know that women want to direct, and they want to direct blockbusters, and they are just as talented (if not more so) than guys like Colin Trevorrow or Phil Lord or Chris Miller but they aren’t being given the opportunity? Probably not the best terms I used. What I am getting at is, more often than not, the directors are are similar to leaders. In that they they provide direction and let the actors, screenwriters, make their own contributions and guide them along without trying to over Micromanage every detail. Historically, men have had more success in that than women. Again look at Kathleen Kennedy, she lets everyone associated with the production do their best and tries to guide them along and most people working with her, often don’t notice (or care) after the initial impression that she is a lady. That could be the difference in the levels of micromanagement. There are exceptions to every rule (ie Margaret Thatcher or Angela Merkel in terms of political leaders ) but men in general seem to be better accepted a leader even if the women are just as qualified. If you look at the recent example of Taika Waititi, he made it fun for everyone on the set to work, that may be the difference Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-on-weinstein-they-were-a-nightmare-to-work-with-avoid-them-at-all-costs/804594/18 "2017-12-16T15:45:18Z")
> [@bmoak](#): > > Didn’t Jackson walk away from Weinstein’s Miramax after too many demands for changes from the studio, including cutting back to two movies, or even one movie? LOTR ended up being a New Line production. The story I remember is that Jackson started shipping the film around as two movies because three scared most companies. New Line said “We looked at your proposal but we think it should be three movies.” ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-on-weinstein-they-were-a-nightmare-to-work-with-avoid-them-at-all-costs/804594/19 "2017-12-16T16:42:15Z")
As far as the whole “women directors can’t do action” nonsense, Kathryn Bigelow made the most impactful war film I ever saw _[The Hurt Locker](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887912/reference)_. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-on-weinstein-they-were-a-nightmare-to-work-with-avoid-them-at-all-costs/804594/20 "2017-12-16T16:51:13Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > As far as the whole “women directors can’t do action” nonsense, Kathryn Bigelow made the most impactful war film I ever saw _[The Hurt Locker](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887912/reference)_. Also, Point Break. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-on-weinstein-they-were-a-nightmare-to-work-with-avoid-them-at-all-costs/804594.md?page=2)