Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan have been cast in She Said, an upcoming movie about the investigation of Harvey Weinstein. For many years, Weinstein was known as one of the most powerful movie moguls in Hollywood until October 2017 when over 80 women came forward accusing him of decades of sexual abuse and assault. The allegations contributed to the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, and Weinstein is now serving a 23-year sentence for charges of rape and criminal sexual assault. The story was first published in the New York Times by Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor and discussed at length the inside accounts behind Weinstein's abuse.
Per Deadline, Mulligan and Kazan will headline playing Twohey and Kantor in She Said, based on the reporters' bestseller She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement. The film will be directed by Maria Schrader, who is coming off an Emmy win for directing the Netflix miniseries Unorthodox, and will be written by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, who co-wrote the Oscar-winning film Ida. She Said will cover the journalists' road to the investigation and the publication of the report that led to Weinstein's downfall. It will begin production this summer.
Twohey and Kantor's in-depth report not only changed the perspective of Hollywood but worldwide as more women from different industries have stood up against terrible behavior by those in power. Mulligan and Kazan, both of whom have been outspoken on equal rights and respect for women, are great fits for the two correspondents who did the same. The actors previously worked together on Broadway in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull and in the movie Wildlife, which Mulligan starred in and Kazan co-wrote with Paul Dano. Hopefully, their offscreen relationship will only make She Said that much better.
Source: Deadline
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