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She Said is a 2022 American drama film directed by Maria Schrader and written by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, based on the 2019 book of the same title by reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey.
- Did Weinstein Put The Reporters Under Surveillance?
- Did Weinstein Really Say He Found Asian and Jewish Women unattractive?
- Did Laura Madden Go on The Record Right Before Surgery?
- Did Lena Dunham Really Reach Out to Try to Help?
- Did Weinstein Really Try to Talk to Kantor “Jew to Jew”?
In the movie, Kantor gets the feeling a black van with blacked-out windows is following her down a dark street. As she looks back at it, it speeds up to go past her. It is never alluded to again. In fact, Weinstein used two covert surveillance companies to keep tabs on not only Kantor and Twohey but also other reporters working on stories about him...
Kantor and Twohey discover the key to the story is not the high-profile actresses harassed by Weinstein but three of the producer’s former assistants in the London office: Zelda Perkins (Samantha Morton), Rowena Chiu (Angela Yeoh), and Laura Madden (Jennifer Ehle). Chiu currently lives in California, and when Kantor goes to her house in 2015 and fi...
Jodi and Megan need a source to confirm their story before it can go to print, but they can’t get anyone to go on the record. They call Madden right before their last deadline for the exposé, which also happens to be shortly before Laura is due to get reconstructive surgery following a mastectomy. In her hospital gown, she gives them permission to ...
In a brief scene in the movie, Kantor and Twohey learn that Lena Dunham and her producing partner Jenni Konner want to help. In real life, in search of women in showbiz who might be potential corroborators, the reporters were put in touch with Dunham. As the reporters describe it in their book, they were wary at first because Dunham did not seem li...
Late in the movie, Kantor tells Twohey that a member of Weinstein’s team had approached her in an attempt to dissuade her from running with the story, asking to talk to her “Jew to Jew.” In an earlier scene, Kantor attempts to win over one of Weinstein’s representatives by bonding over their own shared backgrounds. Speaking to the Forward, Kantor s...
- Ellin Stein
Nov 23, 2022 · She Said documents the New York Times investigation that exposed Harvey Weinstein's misconduct in Hollywood, but how accurate is it to real-life events?
Nov 16, 2022 · Many critics took note not just of the importance of the work that Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey did in their dogged pursuit of the story, but how She Said also shows the journalists as working ...
Oct 14, 2022 · Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan play the New York Times reporters who broke the Weinstein story in a movie that's tense, fraught, and compelling, though with less of a payoff than you want.
Oct 14, 2022 · Critics have mostly praised the film She Said, starring Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan as the US journalists whose investigation into Harvey Weinstein helped spread the #MeToo movement.
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Nov 25, 2022 · Weinstein, in the movie, is desperate to know if Gwyneth Paltrow will appear in the NYT piece. He only cares what she said; the other whistleblowers don’t count. How wrong he is.
