Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain called out filmmaker Quentin Tarantino for what he described as the director’s “complicity” in disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein’s behavior during an industry panel this weekend, after Tarantino admitted in an interview this month that he had known about his friend and frequent collaborator’s history of alleged abuse of women for years.
Bourdain was speaking at the Produced By conference in New York City Saturday when he brought up a story about being approached by an unnamed individual who offered him “untold wealth” in exchange for working with him. Bourdain told the audience he has a “no a**holes” policy when it comes to choosing the people with whom he works, and turned the man down.
While he did not mention the individual’s name, Bourdain said working with him would have been a “lethal compromise.”
“It would have been a slow-acting poison that eventually would have nibbled away at our souls until we ended up like Quentin Tarantino, looking back on a life of complicity and shame and compromise,” Bourdain said, according to the Hollywood Reporter, clearly referring to Tarantino’s frequent partnership with Weinstein.
Bourdain has spoken out frequently about the numerous allegations against Weinstein, the once all-powerful Hollywood mega-mogul who has been accused of sexual misconduct by more than 50 women, and of rape by at least nine.
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