Gossip Girl Left Harvey Weinstein Furious – Here’s Why

Apparently, Stephanie Savage never really intended Willa Weinstein’s fictional existence to be any sort of slight towards Harvey Weinstein’s real daughter — whom she didn’t even know existed at the time. “I didn’t even know that he had a daughter and that, to him, felt like an overstep and ‘who do we think we were’ and all that,” she went on. “We did some ADR to fix that.”

As Savage told it, though, this presented a much larger problem: “But it meant that Harvey Weinstein had my cell phone number, and that Harvey Weinstein would call me anytime he needed anything. The man does not take ‘no’ for an answer, as we have found out,” she said.

Perhaps the most ridiculous part of this whole thing is that Willa Weinstein is sort of a dud — and she’s incredibly unimportant when it comes to the overall narrative of “Gossip Girl.” While the characters “attend” New York University in Season 3 — “attend” being a strong word since they never actually go to class or complete any assignments — characters like Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester), Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley), and Vanessa Abrams (Jessica Szohr) tangle with the artsy Tisch kids, including Willa. Aside from a brief dalliance with Dan, she’s utterly unimportant and disappears without a trace after just four episodes. Clearly, raging about this was a good use of the real Weinstein’s time.