Michael Buckner No one tells Mike Leigh what his movie is about. Not financiers, not distributors, not even Netflix, which he says could fund him “without batting an eyelid” but never has. At 83, Leigh is exactly the man he has always been: an artist with integrity. He’s telling this story to prove it.
At the Savoy Hotel in London, a year or so after the 1997 Academy Awards, Harvey Weinstein received Leigh in his room in a bathrobe, a young woman seated in the corner. Weinstein offered the director a line he has never forgotten: “I could have gotten you those Oscars.”
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