Smith told Entertainment Weekly on Friday that he recalled receiving "400,000 pieces of hate mail and three bona fide death threats" after the film debuted.
One message he vividly remembers said: "You Jews better take that money you stole from us and start investing in flak jackets, because we're coming in there with shotguns."
Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison after being convicted in February 2020 of forcing oral sex on TV and film production assistant Mimi Haley in 2006 and third-degree rape of hairstylist Jessica Mann in 2013.
"My movie about angels is owned by the devil himself," he told the outlet at the time.
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