‘She Said’ movie highlights the women who took on Harvey Weinstein

LONDON, Oct 14 (Reuters) – Actors Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan star because the award-winning journalists who broke the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment scandal within the new movie “She Mentioned,” which premiered on the London Movie Competition on Friday.

The film is predicated on the 2019 guide of the identical identify concerning the New York Instances investigation into claims of sexual misconduct by Weinstein, then some of the highly effective producers in Hollywood. Mulligan and Kazan play Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who wrote the guide and received Pulitzer Prizes for his or her reporting.

“The movie spoke to me as being simply full of ladies being heroic, from the survivors, the witnesses to everybody at The Instances who type of made this occur,” Mulligan informed Reuters on the crimson carpet.

A few of Weinstein’s accusers corresponding to his former assistant Zelda Perkins and her colleague Rowena Chiu appeared on the premiere alongside the film’s stars.

Chiu mentioned seeing her story on the large display screen felt “complicated.”

“There’s an entire mixture of feelings, you’re feeling unhappy about it, you’re feeling indignant about it, you’re feeling type of amazed that there are such a lot of individuals taking an curiosity in it and it is turn into such a giant phenomenon,” she mentioned. “So all these items type of come without delay – so you’re feeling undoubtedly a conflict of feelings.”

After the Instances story broke, some 100 girls got here ahead with accusations of sexual misconduct by Weinstein. The reporting fueled the #MeToo motion, with girls around the globe calling out sexual harassment.

Weinstein, who has denied having non-consensual intercourse with anybody, was sentenced in New York in March 2020 to 23 years in jail for rape and sexual assault involving two girls. He’s interesting the decision.

Weinstein is at the moment on trial in California on further prices of sexual misconduct. He has pleaded not responsible.

Reporting by Sarah Mills; Enhancing by Josie Kao

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