James Cameron Almost Sunk Weinstein’s Ship Before It Sailed

When you win a total of 11 awards for your film there’s not much anyone can tell you. You’re pretty much a Hollywood deity after that. But maybe Harvey Weinstein was on his high horse after successfully completing one of his many non-consensual sex quests and mistook James Cameron for some Canuck punk. Harvey invited James to a pissing match at the Oscars. But Cameron wasn’t up for a water sports award or the verbal golden shower Weinstein was offering. Allegedly James almost pummeled Harvey and was interrupted only by the Academy Awards resuming from a commercial break. The entire altercation started over the mistreatment Guillermo del Toro. 

James Cameron admitted he almost hit Harvey Weinstein with his Academy Award as he was honoured for his work on Titanic

“It was happening on the main floor at the [theatre]…And the music had started to play to get back in our seats. The people around us were saying, ‘Not here! Not here!’ Like it was OK to fight in the parking lot, you know, but it was not OK when the music was playing, and they were about to go live.”

When asked what provoked the near-spat, Cameron said, “It’s kind of a long story, but it has to do with Guillermo del Toro and how badly he was dealt with by Miramax on ‘Mimic.’”

“Harvey came up glad-handing me, talking about how great they were for the artist. I just read him chapter and verse about how great I thought he was for the artist based on my friend’s experience, and that led to an altercation.”

Naturally Weinstein believed he was doing everyone around him a favor. There’s an ethereal amount of courage attained after you bully women into watching you take showers. Not too long after that you start thinking you can freely sodomize anything that moves and speak to people however you see fit. But just like every meal Weinstein has come across he bit off more than he could chew and got too big for his britches. How bittersweet would it have been if Cameron bludgeoned Harvey with an Oscar in hand over commercial break. The head injury might have had a butterfly effect on all of Hollywood and changed Harvey forever. Making all future unreported assaults never happen. Then Rose McGowan may have never had anyone to trade sex for a career. Scary. 

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