Exclusive: In their first interviews about ‘She Said,’ Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan—and the journalists they portray—discuss bringing the groundbreaking investigation into Harvey Weinstein to the big screen. 🔗:
A guide to Hollywood’s biggest races“I remember, of course, because it’s not that far in the past, the ripple effect of that story and how it met up with other cultural forces to create what feels like the beginning of a seismic cultural shift,” sayswho plays Kantor in the film. “We all know how it ended up, but this [movie] is about the job of journalism and what that job entails, and the bravery of the survivors coming forward.
“We wrote our book because we felt like this story belonged to everybody, not just us,” says Kantor, who adds that their main priority in the adaptation process was about accuracy. “It was very important to us that the victims were represented with integrity and sensitivity, and that alsoMaria Schrader
the space they needed to take their book and structure it in the way it would work for a film. “Certain scenes play out pretty much exactly as they really transpired, other things are invented or changed, and then there’s this third layer of things that didn’t literally happen, but have this sort of deeper truth that really is in line with what happened or how we felt at the time,” says Kantor.
When Kazan and Mulligan signed on to play Kantor and Twohey, they spent time with the reporters not only to see what they were like at work, but also in their personal lives. The book meticulously details the investigation, but the script adds in details about Kantor and Twohey’s family lives. Both are working mothers, who were trying to juggle the demands of their work and this story while also trying to be present for their children at home.
At the time of the investigation, Twohey had just had a baby, and her struggle with postpartum depression is captured in the film. She says Mulligan approached that part of her personal life with sensitivity and care. “I felt like she really spent a lot of time with me, and studied me and my family in a way in which she was able to not just portray a sense of me, but to portray this really personal and even difficult time in my life, in a very accurate and respectful way,” she says.
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