Today’s launch of Harvey Weinstein exposé movie She Said has given a shot in the arm to a UK campaign to stop the misuse of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).
05.11.2022 - 21:59 / deadline.com
Zoe Kazan recalls her research for playing New York Times journalist Jodi Kantor in the film She Said taking on a “mimetic quality” as the real-life similarities accumulated.
At Deadline’s Contenders Film: New York event, Kazan described feeling “in communion” with Kantor, one-half of the duo who broke the Harvey Weinstein story. “Our kids went to the same preschool. We’re taking the same subway to work. The New York Times building is down the street from all the theaters I’ve worked at,” she said. “I felt like, ‘Oh, I know Jodi — we wear the same backpack to work!’ There’s some sense in which, she’s a Brooklyn mom, I’m a Brooklyn mom.”
An additional “deep tie with Jodi,” she said, was their shared experience of having their parents provide child care for their toddlers. Given the subject matter explored by the film, it highlighted “the intergenerational tie between women.”
The Universal Pictures film, which is directed by Maria Schrader and hits theaters November 18, takes a deep dive into the misdeeds of Weinstein, the former movie mogul who was convicted in New York of sexual assault and has been accused by 82 women of a range of crimes.
Deadline film writer Valerie Complex, who moderated the Contenders session, asked Kazan what her response is to anyone who might wonder if the film is coming “too soon” after the Weinstein revelations in 2017. “It’s a really valid question,” Kazan said. “For me, it has to do with, it’s not like this problem is solved. I think Jodi and Megan [Twohey, her Times colleague, played in the film by Carey Mulligan] and the reporting were not trying to just take on one man, they were trying to take on a whole system.”
As for the #MeToo movement, for which Weinstein has been a symbol, Kazan
Today’s launch of Harvey Weinstein exposé movie She Said has given a shot in the arm to a UK campaign to stop the misuse of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).
When a film as heavily promoted and well-regarded as Universal’s She Said gets body-slammed at the box office, it’s wise to pay attention.
She Said tells the heroic story of the New York Times journalists that brought the #MeToo movement to the forefront by exposing Harvey Weinstein and the system that enabled him to thrive as a sexual predator. The film, which opened in theaters this weekend, stars Zoe Kazan as Jodi Kantor and Carey Mulligan as Megan Twohey, the Woodward and Bernstein of the 21st century.
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Zoe Kazan and Paul Dano have welcomed their second child. The Ruby Sparks actress revealed her pregnancy when she displayed her baby bump in a photoshoot for the latest issue of Marie Claire magazine. And during an appearance on the Today show to promote her new movie She Said on Monday, Zoe revealed that she had given birth in late October.
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