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Winona Ryder said in a new interview with Esquire magazine that she found herself blacklisted by Miramax in "the late 1990s and early 2000s" for "various reasons," including a meeting with company co-founder Harvey Weinstein that reportedly angered him. Weinstein led Miramax until 2005. He is currently in prison for sexual abuse.

"One time I had a meeting with [Harvey Weinstein], I went into the Miramax office and I stuck my hand out and he shook my hand and I sat down on the couch and we had a conversation and I left," Ryder said. "And [afterward] I got yelled at [by an agent]. 'What the fuck did you do?' I was like, 'What?' Apparently I offended him because I stuck my hand out? … I think so."

Ryder had already worked on a Miramax film at that point in her career, 1993’s “The House of the Spirits,” and recalled Weinstein banging on her trailer door during production, insisting that she star in a film adaptation of the play “Little Voice.”