NEW YORK — Lawyers for Harvey Weinstein on Monday continued their bid for a mistrial in the disgraced movie mogul’s rape and sexual assault retrial as a juror again reached out to the judge to discuss the tense deliberations.

The weekend break did nothing to change the defense team’s stance that a Manhattan judge should shut down the six-week trial amid a juror’s concern about misconduct during deliberations.

“People are considering things that are not in this trial as evidence,” Weinstein’s attorney Arthur Aidala said. “They’re talking about the past.”

Aidala then moved for a mistrial, saying “there’s a tainted juror” and that jurors were discussing crimes that Weinstein was not charged with and other elements of the defendant’s past.

Judge Curtis Farber denied the motion.

Meanwhile, another juror told the judge that the jury was making progress.

“I basically wanted to give the temperature,” she said. “The tone is very good today. We’re making headway.”

Weinstein, 73, is accused of raping a woman in 2013 and sexually assaulting two others 20 years ago. He has pleaded not guilty.

On Friday, a juror asked Farber if he could be dismissed from the trial because he believed the process was not “fair and just.”

Farber denied that request, and urged the panel to resume deliberations.

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