Sometimes, what you don't say is more powerful than what you do say. When asked about the
Harvey Weinstein sexual assault allegations, Uma Thurman carried the ice-cold demeanors of her characters into reality, proving that she is wiser and more measured than most. While some may have expected her to give another pre-written or generic statement about being horrified, Thurman took it far deeper and more emotionally than expected.
The time to speak about Harvey Weinstein has come, and Thurman wants to make sure her mental and emotional state is at peak normality, to give the statement she truly wants to give. However, she can't yet give that statement, as she has been furious for the past four weeks, too angry to truly deliver a polished statement, and she owned up to it and declared it.
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Measuring and containing her anger, Thurman said with chilling conviction:
"I don't have a tidy soundbite for you because I've learned that I'm not a child. I've learned that when I've spoken in anger, I usually regret the way that I express myself. So, I've been waiting to feel less angry and when I'm ready I'll say what I've got to say."
In a just world, Thurman's iconic Bride character from Kill Bill would take on Harvey Weinstein like all the other pigs who abused women in the series. But in real life, we don't have that power. We can only be horrified after the fact, and watch in anguish as Weinstein avoids criminal charges, and isn't even arrested for crimes that should put an ordinary person in prison for 400+ years.
Thurman also has a closer film relationship to Weinstein than many other actors and actresses in Hollywood. She was Quentin Tarantino's "muse" during the Kill Bill films, which were all produced with help from Weinstein. Weinstein and Tarantino were close partners in all his films from Pulp Fiction to the present, and so Weinstein in many ways is the man behind the scenes who has made Thurman's best films possible. That kind of thing makes it ten times more horrible and personal.
Tarantino himself recently admitted:
“I knew enough to do more than I did. There was more to it than just the normal rumors, the normal gossip. It wasn’t secondhand. I knew he did a couple of these things. I wish I had taken responsibility for what I heard. If I had done the work I should have done then, I would have had to not work with him.”
Thurman must be going through a very tough time, understanding that she and her director of choice were working with a serial rapist for years, and that more could have been done the entire time.
Do you think Thurman's response was powerful? In the future, do you think she will speak up with new details and conceptions of the Weinstein sexual assault scandal? We hope she can find some inner peace by 2018, as the Weinstein allegations and other famous actors continue to reveal that Hollywood has been a bed for roaches to swarm.
