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Filmmaker Michael Caton-Jones told BuzzFeed News on Monday the real reason he was dropped from the 1998 cult classic B. Monkey wasn’t creative differences, as it was reported at the time, but because Harvey Weinstein thought his pick for the starring role wasn’t “fuckable.”

The lead role for the romantic thriller went instead to Asia Argento, who is one of dozens of women to have recently alleged Weinstein sexually assaulted or harassed them. Argento said Weinstein raped her in 1997.

“The basics of the deal was we were going to find an unknown and we were going to cast her as the lead in the film,” he said. “There was extensive casting. We saw many, many girls, maybe 100 or so. And I ended up — I thought Sophie Okonedo would have been great for the part.”

But Caton-Jones said he knew he had to get his pick approved by Weinstein. So he and Okonedo flew to California to meet with Weinstein at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills, which is “where the trouble began.”

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