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But which was worse to deal with \u2014 the kidnapping or the Weinsteins?<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Weinsteins, hands down,\u201d del Toro told Deadline\u2019s Mike Fleming Jr.<\/a> in an appearance at Contenders Film: Los Angeles on Saturday. \u201cBecause on the other thing, you knew what they wanted. The Weinsteins, who the f*ck knew what they wanted?\u201d<\/p>\n Sharing that \u201cthere\u2019s images\u201d and \u201cmoments\u201d in Mimic<\/a> \u201cthat come from that ordeal,\u201d del Toro noted that his Weinstein brothers debacle unfortunately \u201clasted more than 72 days\u201d and was far more unpredictable of a scenario to grapple with than what he had while teaming with Avatar<\/a> helmer James Cameron<\/a> to get his father back, in an experience he said…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1997 was a memorable year for Guillermo del Toro for two reasons: His father was kidnapped in Guadalajara, Mexico, and, after a turbulent experience with Bob and Harvey Weinstein on his sophomore feature Mimic, the film was released. But which was worse to deal with \u2014 the kidnapping or the Weinsteins? \u201cThe Weinsteins, hands down,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2159394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2159393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Guillermo-del-Toro-Says-Working-With-Weinstein-Brothers-Was-Worse.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2159393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2159395,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159393\/revisions\/2159395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2159394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}