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In that same year, he also traveled to the English countryside to visit the set of “Brideshead Revisited,” an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel about sexual mores and a golden age of aristocracy on the eve of World War II. Miramax, his first company, which he started with his brother Bob in 1979, was in negotiations to distribute the film in North America.

During a break in the filming, the brash Hollywood powerbroker behind such blockbusters as “The English Patient” and “The Crying Game” walked over to Hayley Atwell, a then-24-year-old British-American actress who was playing Julia Flyte in the movie. Weinstein started flirting with the actress, who was clearly nervous, starring in one of her first major roles.

At lunch, Weinstein sat with the cast and crew, and told Atwell to watch what she was eating, explaining that he had just come from watching that morning’s filming and he didn’t like what he saw, a film-industry source told The Post

“You look like a fat pig on screen,” said Weinstein, who had just come from watching the dailies. “Stop eating so much.”

When Atwell told her Oscar-winning co-star Emma Thompson that the Miramax head ordered her to go on a diet, Thompson flipped. She took Weinstein aside and threatened to quit if he forced Atwell or any other woman on set to go on a diet.t

“Emma called Harvey out for being a misogynist and a bully and really gave him a hard time,” the source said. Weinstein backed down.

OH MY GOD what an asshole, she’s beautiful! Also I knew this story, but Yay for Emma! Forever a queen!

Harvey Weinstein called ‘Captain America’s Hayley Atwell ‘a fat pig’