Clip of Paul Sorvino trying to “strangle” Harvey Weinstein reappears

He threatened to hit Weinstein.

Amid a spate of tributes to late screen icon Paul Sorvino, who died of natural causes on Monday at the age of 83, one video seemed to resonate with fans in particular: a clip of the “Goodfellas” star threatening his life of disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey to choke Weinstein. The old cut 126,000 views accumulated on Twitter as social media praised the late actor for fighting off predators.

“It is indescribably reprehensible that women have been treated in this way,” Sorvino told local news outlet KCAL9 at a Golden Globes event in January 2018, addressing the high-profile scandal in which several actors – including the actor’s own daughter, Mira Sorvino – implicated – stepped forward to accuse Weinstein, 70, of rape, sexual assault or sexual harassment.

“If you had a phenomenal mother like me, you’re automatically a feminist. That’s why I have this wonderful wife,” added the Godfather of Harlem actor. “The reality is that anyone who takes advantage of women should be strangled in public, and I will volunteer.”

Social media praised Sorvino for his woman-friendly attitude.

“F-King Legend!!” gushed one admiring fan on Twitter, Adding a follow up tweet, “Wish more men would think and act like that!”

“Harvey would have swum with the fish” flattered another while explained a Sorvino supporter“A man stands up for women!”

Elsewhere in the interview, Sorvino addressed the horrifying alleged incident in which his daughter claimed she was blacklisted in Hollywood for turning down Weinstein’s advances.

“She was rejected, we know that,” lamented the “Romeo and Juliet” star. “It’s a terrible thing. She deserves all the new looks and opportunities that she may not have had because she has it all, she has the whole package and she’s a great person.”

In 2017, 54-year-old Sorvino told The New Yorker that in 1995, 65-year-old Weinstein tried to give her a massage and “hunted” her around a hotel room, then a few weeks later invited himself into her apartment, bypassing her doorman and herself refused to leave until a friend she had invited to pose for her boyfriend arrived.

“I can’t say for sure if [my career] was affected,” admitted the Summer Of Sam actress. “But I won an Oscar with Miramax. To no longer continue and act in their films, it makes no sense. I felt like if I had accepted Harvey’s advances, I would have continued to make films with them, and they were the Oscar-winning people of that decade.”

According to director Peter Jackson, Weinstein prevented Mira Sorvino from being considered for a role in the hugely successful The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

That didn’t sit well with her father, who told TMZ in 2018, “If I meet him on the street, he should hope he goes to jail.”

“Because when we come over [one another]I think he’s going to be kind of magical on the floor,” he added. “He’s going to jail. This son of ab-h, good for him if he goes because if he doesn’t then he has to meet me and I’ll kill that motherf-ker.”

He claimed at the time that he only found out about the allegations of sexual harassment and assault and the blacklisting against the Shakespeare in Love filmmaker when the public did, stating: “If I had known, he wouldn’t be gone. He would be in a wheelchair.

“My daughter is a wonderful person,” he said at the time. “A brave and wonderful human being who didn’t deserve to be treated like that by that swine. This pig will get his comeuppance. The law will get him. He will go to prison and die in prison. But if he doesn’t…I just punch him around. I won’t do anything terrible.”

After her father’s death Mira tweeted a moving tribute to her late father and women’s rights activist.

“My father, the great Paul Sorvino, has died,” the heartbroken playwright wrote. “My heart is torn – a lifetime of love, joy and wisdom with him is over.

She added: “He was the most wonderful father. I love him so much. Sending you love in the stars Dad as you ascend.”