“A particular Hollywood producer had bid for the Reacher script and not got it, but ego-wise was driven to have some part of me,” he says. “He wanted me to rewrite a movie. I didn’t want to do it, so I did what you do in Hollywood – ask for a ridiculous amount of money. But he paid it! It was 11 days of work and I got a million bucks. I bought a Renoir as a kind of marker of that.” The producer, he reveals, with a kind of inevitability, was Harvey Weinstein. “That can be your subhead,” Child adds, with the grin of a man who used to work in commercial TV. “Harvey Weinstein bought me a Renoir.”

“Maybe it was an omission on my part, but I never thought about him from a woman’s point of view. I probably should have. But from a man’s point of view he was a bully and combative. During our meeting he would say ‘you’d better believe I’m a tough guy’. After 20 minutes I was just bored. I said: ‘Harvey, f--- you. I’m from Birmingham. You have no idea what a tough guy is.’ He told this story about losing his eye in a fight when he was 12. I said: ‘I have both eyes. I won all my fights when I was 12.’”

Not reading that chit. Cliffs?

Brutal

He out jewed a weinstein.

Interesting

Lmaoooo

Now we know where Jack REACHERS alpha character comes from.