Harvey Weinstein threw a wrench in Eddie Redmayne's My Week With Marilyn

Redmayne had only a passing knowledge of Monroe's life, but he was so engrossed in Clark's story that he really wanted to do something special with "My Week With Marilyn ". Unfortunately, since convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein was an executive producer, he could be found walking around the set, which seriously pissed Redmayne off.

While participating in a Vanity Fair retrospective on his career, Redmayne explained how Weinstein got into his head:

"I remember him telling me the first day to walk with him. He said, 'Walk me.' And I was terrified. And he told me kinda says he didn't want me in the movie, and that I was moving my face too much, uh, so my kind of overwhelming memory of that movie is just trying not to move my face, which is... Explain a big part of the performance."

Leave it to one of the industry's most destructive forces to be an asshole to an actor on day one. The only good thing Weinstein ever did was walk away because his decades-long damage finally caught up with him. There's also something so disgusting about an industry-wide abuser having any semblance of power over a story involving Monroe. Redmayne, however, would have the last laugh when he won Best Actor at the Oscars for "The Theory of Everything."

"My Week with Marilyn" is currently streaming on HBO Max.