“And I feel like what happened between Harvey and I was trivial - and I don’t want a trivial act and a trivial thing that happened between two men to ever trivialize the importance of what needs to be dealt with between Harvey and a bunch of women.”
“I feel like acts of violence against women are detestable and they need to be dealt with and they are important. “I don’t want my situation with Harvey to ever be a distraction,” Priestley said. Priestley, a native of Vancouver who used to box himself for several years, said he made the admission in a bid to clarify the situation during a Twitter exchange. The former Beverly Hills, 90210 star first shared his Weinstein experience on Twitter in response to a post about Mira Sorvino allegedly losing a role in The Lord of the Rings film series because of a smear campaign orchestrated by the producer. “That was just dumb, blind luck, I guess,” Priestley said with a laugh in a recent interview, when asked if the Private Eyes episode was a wink and a nod to his Weinstein story. TORONTO - Jason Priestley says it’s merely a coincidence that the upcoming return of Private Eyes is reminiscent of recent headlines surrounding the Canadian actor.Ĭanadian heavyweight boxing champ George Chuvalo guest stars in Sunday’s episode on Global, as the detective duo played by Priestley and Cindy Sampson investigate whether a match between female fighters was fixed.Īt one point, Priestley’s character sucker-punches his former manager, bringing to mind the actor’s admission last December that he once clocked Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein at a Miramax party after the Golden Globes.
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