Weinstein Exposé Changed The Industry, Ashley Judd, Zoe Kazan Tell Rapt NYFF Audience At ‘She Said’ World Premiere
14.10.2022 - 08:13
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Intimacy coordinators, new protocols and safeguards and “things that seem very small on the page” have made Hollywood a better place for women in the MeToo era unleashed by the New York Times’ Oct. 5, 2017 investigation of Harvey Weinstein, said Zoe Kazan, who plays journalist Jodi Kantor in Maria Schrader’s She Said.
“We are still living in an oppressive patriarchy. That’s not special to our industry. There is so much change left to be effected,” Kazan said at the world premiere of the Universal Studios’ release at the New York Film Festival. But, “One of the things that has happened as a result of this reporting … and the reporting that came out subsequently, is that there is now a conversation that is open and not just behind closed doors, and I think that makes an enormous difference.”
“There are also things that seem very small on the page, like having an intimacy coordinator, which has now become an industry standard,” she said. Briefly “weirded out” by the idea, pretty “immediately, I was like, ‘I would never throw a punch without a stunt coordinator. It makes so much sense. Why has this not been here all along?’ So I feel there are certain safeguards and channels of communication that are open,” she told a Q&A after the screening.
Ashley Judd, the first actress who agreed to go on the record for Kantor and Twohey, played herself in the film. “So much has improved,” she said. “I remember being sexually harassed on set and not knowing where to go and with whom to speak about it. And now our union is so switched on and strong. On the membership card, there is a sexual harassment hotline number. There is a definition of sexual harassment on the web page, there are all the protocols: I can take someone to an
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