‘Weinstein kept unused sex scenes for personal collection’
The Hollywood reporter makes claim regarding the sex scenes in Carol The report says, ‘ Harvey Weinstein could have kept unused footage of nude scenes between Kate Blanchett and Rooney Mara’ As per the sensational report, if a shot scene doesn’t make the
Los Angeles: Sources who worked on the 2015 movie Carol have said that they fear Harvey Weinstein could have kept unused footage of nude scenes between Kate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. The Hollywood Reporter
quotes insiders who worked on the film, which found Blanchett and Mara’s characters having an illicit affair in 1950s New York, saying that the producer may have kept scenes for his ‘ personal collection’.
“I don’t even think it’s possible to destroy anything in the digital age,” said the source. “The idea of anything being erased from existence is naive.”
The claim is not substantiated in the THR piece, and reps for Weinstein have denied the existence of any such footage.
But the claims are made in a larger report on the increasing necessity among actors to use ‘ nudity riders’, complex legal documents which can involve securing and destroying footage that is not used from sex scenes to preventing it from being leaked, and contractual stipulations to ensure scenes are filmed properly.
Weinstein's lawyer and agent for comment. Representation for the film's production companies did not immediately respond to requests for comment. According to the piece, if a shot scene doesn’t make the final cut most legal agreements call for the producer to use “good faith efforts” to delete the scene.
Other stipulations often include the use of closed sets, ensuring that security over who is working on the scene is heightened, though, according to some lawyers who represent stars, such contractual obligations can sometimes be ignored. “Mostly, where you get into trouble is where a producer or director approaches an actress directly on a set and asks for something that wasn’t negotiated,” says talent manager Jon Rubinstein. “It’s, ‘ Look, the whole crew wants to go home. It’s midnight. We’re all exhausted. We just have to get this one last shot.
“The way that we’ve been doing it isn’t working. Can you drop the towel?’ Or, ‘ That shirt doesn’t look right, why don’t you just lose it?’ Then suddenly you’re standing there and you’ve got 20 people waiting for you, and you go, ‘ Ugh, fine.’ That happens all the time.” Earlier this week, German actress Emma Loman sued Weinstein for sexual assault, battery, false imprisonment, and violation of human trafficking laws.