In “She Said,” New York Times journalists Jodi Kantor (Zoe Kazan) and Megan Twohey (Carey Mulligan) wonder if their tireless work in reporting Harvey Weinstein‘s decades of sexual abuse and harassment will change anything — if anyone will care. Maria Schrader had a similar thought when she read their article on Oct. 5, 2017. “It was shocking. It was at the same time not really surprising. I was wondering what would follow, if there would be something following,” the director tells Gold Derby (watch the exclusive video interview above). “And then it did.”
The exposé sparked the #MeToo movement and led to the downfall of the now imprisoned mogul as more and more survivors of his systemic abuse spoke out. Kantor and Twohey won the Pulitzer Prize and wrote a book, “She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement,” about their investigation, which was being adapted into a...
The exposé sparked the #MeToo movement and led to the downfall of the now imprisoned mogul as more and more survivors of his systemic abuse spoke out. Kantor and Twohey won the Pulitzer Prize and wrote a book, “She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement,” about their investigation, which was being adapted into a...
- 12/6/2022
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan in ‘She Said’ (Photo © Universal Studios)
On October 5, 2017, journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey published an article in the New York Times that exposed Harvey Weinstein’s lengthy history of sexual assaults and catapulted the #MeToo movement into the mainstream lexicon. Kantor and Twohey’s incredible work is brought to life on the screen in She Said, a powerful drama adapted by Independent Spirit Award nominee Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Colette) and directed by Emmy Award winner Maria Schrader (Unorthodox).
She Said delves into Kantor and Twohey’s research process and how their award-winning exposé rocked Hollywood and heightened public awareness of the prevalence of sexual harassment in workplaces in the entertainment industry and beyond.
In 2022, the #MeToo movement’s widely accepted and embraced as pivotal in spurring changes in behavior both inside and outside the workplace. As for Weinstein, the disgraced media mogul and sexual predator...
On October 5, 2017, journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey published an article in the New York Times that exposed Harvey Weinstein’s lengthy history of sexual assaults and catapulted the #MeToo movement into the mainstream lexicon. Kantor and Twohey’s incredible work is brought to life on the screen in She Said, a powerful drama adapted by Independent Spirit Award nominee Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Colette) and directed by Emmy Award winner Maria Schrader (Unorthodox).
She Said delves into Kantor and Twohey’s research process and how their award-winning exposé rocked Hollywood and heightened public awareness of the prevalence of sexual harassment in workplaces in the entertainment industry and beyond.
In 2022, the #MeToo movement’s widely accepted and embraced as pivotal in spurring changes in behavior both inside and outside the workplace. As for Weinstein, the disgraced media mogul and sexual predator...
- 11/28/2022
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
For director Maria Schrader, “She Said” was more than a truthful and thrilling recreation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, #MeToo-bolstering New York Times report that exposed Harvey Weinstein’s decades of sexual abuse and harassment. It was also about the personal stories of New York Times journalists Jodi Kantor (Zoe Kazan) and Megan Twohey (Carey Mulligan). This made it a more complex and emotionally resonant film about female empowerment and the “crucible of motherhood,” which Schrader’s go-to editor, Hansjörg Weißbrich, leaned into.
“This was an investigative thriller and a more important aspect — their private life and how they got to know each other as a result of the collaboration,” Weißbrich told IndieWire. “This was an additional storyline that wasn’t in the book.”
But that first required Schrader and screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz to gain the trust of Kantor and Twohey, to let them include their struggle with parenting along with...
“This was an investigative thriller and a more important aspect — their private life and how they got to know each other as a result of the collaboration,” Weißbrich told IndieWire. “This was an additional storyline that wasn’t in the book.”
But that first required Schrader and screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz to gain the trust of Kantor and Twohey, to let them include their struggle with parenting along with...
- 11/23/2022
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
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There’s a photo of the moment right before The New York Times published its very first story about Harvey Weinstein’s systemic sexual harassment. Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor are there, along with their editors at the newspaper. They’re gathered around a computer, giving the story one last read and waiting to press the button that would change not just Hollywood, but the world, sparking a movement that would leap from country to country. The second that She Said screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz saw the picture, with a composition that’s sort of Washington Crossing the Delaware meets The Last Supper, she knew it had to be a pivotal moment in the movie. “It became this iconic image to me,” she says. The film that she would go on to write, about the now-famous journalists whose Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation kicked off the...
There’s a photo of the moment right before The New York Times published its very first story about Harvey Weinstein’s systemic sexual harassment. Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor are there, along with their editors at the newspaper. They’re gathered around a computer, giving the story one last read and waiting to press the button that would change not just Hollywood, but the world, sparking a movement that would leap from country to country. The second that She Said screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz saw the picture, with a composition that’s sort of Washington Crossing the Delaware meets The Last Supper, she knew it had to be a pivotal moment in the movie. “It became this iconic image to me,” she says. The film that she would go on to write, about the now-famous journalists whose Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation kicked off the...
- 11/18/2022
- by Seija Rankin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Talk to any investigative reporter, and they will fill your ears with tales about the combination of excitement and pure existential dread that occurs right before an editor hits the Publish button. So much legwork leads up to that moment; so much shoe-leather, metaphorical or otherwise, gets sanded away in the name of bringing something to light, or someone to justice. Then, with a click — and in the age of digital journalism, it’s usually a click — they pass the point of no return (and/or enter the realm of...
- 11/17/2022
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
In Maria Schrader’s She Said, two New York Times reporters investigate allegations of sexual misconduct against Hollywood producer Harvey Weintstein. Their work not only leads to a measure of justice for victims, but helps inspire #MeToo, an ongoing effort to improve professional practices for women in a male-dominated industry. Schrader and her crew shot largely on location, including inside the New York Times headquarters near Times Square. The heavyweight cast includes Carey Mulligan (Megan Twohey), Zoe Kazan (Jodi Kantor), Patricia Clarkson (Rebecca Corbett), Jennifer Ehle (Laura Madden) and Samantha Morton (Zelda Perkins). Director of photography Natasha Braier has worked on […]
The post “I Wanted the Camera To Be a Good Listener”: Dp Natasha Braier on She Said first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “I Wanted the Camera To Be a Good Listener”: Dp Natasha Braier on She Said first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 11/17/2022
- by Daniel Eagan
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
In Maria Schrader’s She Said, two New York Times reporters investigate allegations of sexual misconduct against Hollywood producer Harvey Weintstein. Their work not only leads to a measure of justice for victims, but helps inspire #MeToo, an ongoing effort to improve professional practices for women in a male-dominated industry. Schrader and her crew shot largely on location, including inside the New York Times headquarters near Times Square. The heavyweight cast includes Carey Mulligan (Megan Twohey), Zoe Kazan (Jodi Kantor), Patricia Clarkson (Rebecca Corbett), Jennifer Ehle (Laura Madden) and Samantha Morton (Zelda Perkins). Director of photography Natasha Braier has worked on […]
The post “I Wanted the Camera To Be a Good Listener”: Dp Natasha Braier on She Said first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “I Wanted the Camera To Be a Good Listener”: Dp Natasha Braier on She Said first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 11/17/2022
- by Daniel Eagan
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Five years after allegations surfaced against Harvey Weinstein, the bombshell investigation that exposed the movie titan to be a serial sexual abuser is getting the Hollywood treatment — and his victims are helping filmmakers tell the story. “She Said,” based on the book by New York Times investigative journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, who first reported on Weinstein’s history of sexual harassment and assault in depth, hits theaters this weekend. The film doesn’t just center on the two reporters. It’s also about the women who came forward to expose Weinstein’s abuse across decades, igniting the hashtag #MeToo, blazing a cultural and societal fire of truth-telling and knocking down systemic abuses of power in the workplace. The Universal-distributed movie includes an unprecedented level of participation from these same women, many of whom advised the filmmakers and some of whom act on-screen.
When “She Said” premieres Nov.
When “She Said” premieres Nov.
- 11/17/2022
- by Elizabeth Wagmeister
- Variety Film + TV
Last week’s world premiere for She Said in New York has afforded Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan an opportunity to reflect on the task they just undertook, to tell the story behind the story of Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s 2017 reporting for the New York Times that first exposed the harrowing abuses of Harvey Weinstein. It was a monumental journalistic achievement, and the impact of their reporting, as well as that of the New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow published just a few days later, brought about a seismic shift in industry attitudes to abuse, cracking open a door that survivors of Weinstein and the many other abusers exposed since have been able to step through. Kantor, Twohey and Farrow would go on to share the Pulitzer Prize for their reporting.
Directed by Maria Schrader from Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s script, and produced by Plan B’s Dede Garner and Jeremy Kleiner,...
Directed by Maria Schrader from Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s script, and produced by Plan B’s Dede Garner and Jeremy Kleiner,...
- 10/17/2022
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
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The New York Film Festival’s world premiere of She Said, based on the book of the same name about the New York Times‘ investigation into Harvey Weinstein’s decades of alleged sexual misconduct, was a “memorable moment,” director Maria Schrader said Thursday night.
Schrader said she and the team behind the Universal film, which she was still working on four weeks ago, had hoped the movie would make its debut in New York.
“This is actually what we wished for because this is where it belongs,” she told The Hollywood Reporter ahead of She Said‘s premiere.
The film screened at the prestigious fall festival, which Weinstein himself frequented in his heyday. And the world premiere took place as Weinstein’s Los Angeles sexual assault trial is beginning. He was convicted of rape in a New York trial in early 2020.
But Thursday night,...
The New York Film Festival’s world premiere of She Said, based on the book of the same name about the New York Times‘ investigation into Harvey Weinstein’s decades of alleged sexual misconduct, was a “memorable moment,” director Maria Schrader said Thursday night.
Schrader said she and the team behind the Universal film, which she was still working on four weeks ago, had hoped the movie would make its debut in New York.
“This is actually what we wished for because this is where it belongs,” she told The Hollywood Reporter ahead of She Said‘s premiere.
The film screened at the prestigious fall festival, which Weinstein himself frequented in his heyday. And the world premiere took place as Weinstein’s Los Angeles sexual assault trial is beginning. He was convicted of rape in a New York trial in early 2020.
But Thursday night,...
- 10/17/2022
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Welcome to Oscar Experts Typing, a weekly column in which Gold Derby editors and Experts Joyce Eng and Christopher Rosen discuss the Oscar race — via Slack, of course. This week, we look at two new entrants into the Best Actress race.
Christopher Rosen: Hello, Joyce! If it’s a day of the week that ends in the letter “y,” you know there’s a new Oscar contender that has caught my eye. So, this week, it’s “She Said,” which we both saw at the New York Film Festival on Thursday. Joyce, what a picture! The journalism thriller about the New York Times reporting that brought down Harvey Weinstein was a movie we discussed as a possible Oscars juggernaut way back in March, but the enthusiasm for the project kind of dimmed in the literal months since on account of its small festival footprint. Now having seen it, however, I...
Christopher Rosen: Hello, Joyce! If it’s a day of the week that ends in the letter “y,” you know there’s a new Oscar contender that has caught my eye. So, this week, it’s “She Said,” which we both saw at the New York Film Festival on Thursday. Joyce, what a picture! The journalism thriller about the New York Times reporting that brought down Harvey Weinstein was a movie we discussed as a possible Oscars juggernaut way back in March, but the enthusiasm for the project kind of dimmed in the literal months since on account of its small festival footprint. Now having seen it, however, I...
- 10/14/2022
- by Joyce Eng and Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
“Can I quote you?” As it did throughout Jodi Kantor and Meghan Twohey’s intrepid investigative journalism for the New York Times, that question reverberates in Maria Schrader’s She Said, an understated, polished procedural that chronicles the way two reporters exposed Hollywood mega-producer Harvey Weinstein’s decades of sexual abuse and assault. Their unrelenting pursuit to convince accusers to go on-record comprises the majority of this movie, which builds to pressing publish on the bombshell, 3,300-word article that uncovered allegations made by actresses—most notably Ashley Judd—and current and former employees, along with previously undisclosed corporate records, documents, and settlements that kept numerous women from speaking out.
Since then more than 80 women have come forward with accusations against Weinstein, who was eventually convicted in 2018 as a rapist and is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence. In many ways the details of Weinstein’s sex crimes and aggressive behavior ignited the #MeToo movement,...
Since then more than 80 women have come forward with accusations against Weinstein, who was eventually convicted in 2018 as a rapist and is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence. In many ways the details of Weinstein’s sex crimes and aggressive behavior ignited the #MeToo movement,...
- 10/14/2022
- by Jake Kring-Schreifels
- The Film Stage
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The headline was clear, concise and damning: “Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers for Decades.” The story, written by New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor and published on Oct. 5, 2017, detailed how the powerful producer and Miramax co-founder swatted away allegations of sexual assault and harassment for decades. They spoke to his former assistants, prominent actresses and other film industry people to figure out the constellation of lawyers, employees and advisors who protected the Hollywood mogul. Twohey and Kantor’s reporting not only aided Weinstein survivors seeking redress; it also helped ignite a percolating movement.
Maria Schrader’s She Said dramatizes Twohey and Kantor’s investigative process, sensitively portraying the lengths the reporters went to in order to expose one of the most harrowing cases of workplace abuse, power and coercion in memory. (I was an employee at the Times...
The headline was clear, concise and damning: “Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers for Decades.” The story, written by New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor and published on Oct. 5, 2017, detailed how the powerful producer and Miramax co-founder swatted away allegations of sexual assault and harassment for decades. They spoke to his former assistants, prominent actresses and other film industry people to figure out the constellation of lawyers, employees and advisors who protected the Hollywood mogul. Twohey and Kantor’s reporting not only aided Weinstein survivors seeking redress; it also helped ignite a percolating movement.
Maria Schrader’s She Said dramatizes Twohey and Kantor’s investigative process, sensitively portraying the lengths the reporters went to in order to expose one of the most harrowing cases of workplace abuse, power and coercion in memory. (I was an employee at the Times...
- 10/14/2022
- by Lovia Gyarkye
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
(from left) Hywel Madden (Wesley Holloway), Laura Madden (Jennifer Ehle) and Iris Madden (Justine Colan) in She Said, directed by Maria Schrader.
Here’s your first look at the poster and trailer for Universal Pictures’ upcoming drama She Said, due in theaters on November 18,
Two-time Academy Award® nominee Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan star as New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who together broke one of the most important stories in a generation— a story that helped propel the #Metoo movement, shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood and altered American culture forever.
The film is produced by Academy Award® winners Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner for Plan B Entertainment and is executive produced by Oscar®nominee Megan Ellison and Sue Naegle for Annapurna Pictures.
(from left) Megan Twohey (Carey Mulligan) and Jodi Kantor (Zoe Kazan) in She Said, directed by Maria Schrader.
Here’s your first look at the poster and trailer for Universal Pictures’ upcoming drama She Said, due in theaters on November 18,
Two-time Academy Award® nominee Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan star as New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who together broke one of the most important stories in a generation— a story that helped propel the #Metoo movement, shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood and altered American culture forever.
The film is produced by Academy Award® winners Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner for Plan B Entertainment and is executive produced by Oscar®nominee Megan Ellison and Sue Naegle for Annapurna Pictures.
(from left) Megan Twohey (Carey Mulligan) and Jodi Kantor (Zoe Kazan) in She Said, directed by Maria Schrader.
- 7/15/2022
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Global film and TV executives, including “Elizabeth” producer Alison Owen and “Shakespeare in Love” producer David Parfitt, have spoken out about Harvey Weinstein’s guilty verdict, calling it a “seismic” victory that will bring about immutable change.
Monday’s long-awaited outcome to the U.S. trial, which saw Weinstein convicted of sexual assault and third-degree rape, has been regarded as a landmark victory that will continue to transcend borders and impact women in the international industry.
Monumental Pictures boss Owen, who has produced the likes of “Suffragette” and “Jane Eyre,” worked with Weinstein across five films and, in 2017, broke her silence on his “sleazeball” behavior on set. Owen’s sister-in-law Laura Madden, a former Miramax employee, was one of the first women to go on the record for the New York Times’ ground-breaking investigation into Weinstein.
“When I heard the news yesterday, it felt like the world had turned on its axis,...
Monday’s long-awaited outcome to the U.S. trial, which saw Weinstein convicted of sexual assault and third-degree rape, has been regarded as a landmark victory that will continue to transcend borders and impact women in the international industry.
Monumental Pictures boss Owen, who has produced the likes of “Suffragette” and “Jane Eyre,” worked with Weinstein across five films and, in 2017, broke her silence on his “sleazeball” behavior on set. Owen’s sister-in-law Laura Madden, a former Miramax employee, was one of the first women to go on the record for the New York Times’ ground-breaking investigation into Weinstein.
“When I heard the news yesterday, it felt like the world had turned on its axis,...
- 2/25/2020
- by Manori Ravindran and Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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