Universal Pictures has unveiled the first trailer for the upcoming #MeToo drama, She Said, about the New York Times’ expose of the Harvey Weinstein sex scandal. She Said stars Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan as reporters Meghan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who helped Weinstein’s victims band together and break their silence about his decades of abuse in Hollywood.
Brad Pitt is producing She Said along with Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner through their production banner Plan B Entertainment. Three of the company’s movies, The Departed, 12 Years a Slave, and Moonlight, have gone on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. And She Said looks like another awards contender with its timely subject matter and a talented cast and crew.
She Said is directed by Emmy winner Maria Schrader (Unorthodox) from a screenplay by Oscar-winning writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Ida, Disobedience). She Said is adapted from the 2019 best-seller She Said: Breaking The Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey. You can check out the trailer below.
The official plot synopsis for She Said reads:
"Two-time Academy Award nominee Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan star as New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who together broke one of the most important stories in a generation— a story that helped propel the #MeToo movement, shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood and altered American culture forever."
The She Said trailer finds Kazan’s Kantor investigating the Hollywood casting couch controversy. As the cases mount up, she teams up with veteran journalist Megan Twohey, but the pair have a tough task ahead: convincing several traumatized women to go on the record while themselves resisting intimidation and threats from Weinstein and his legal team.
But as we know, the truth finally came out when Kantor and Twohey published their Pulitzer-winning report in The New York Times in 2017 and thus ignited the #MeToo movement. The pair went on to write the non-fiction book She Said, on which the film is based, about the behind-the-scenes processes and the sources the authors used to investigate Weinstein.
She Said also stars Patricia Clarkson (Pieces of April), Andre Braugher (Brooklyn Nine Nine), Samantha Morton (Minority Report), Tom Pelphrey (Ozark), Adam Shapiro (Sense8), Jennifer Ehle (The Comey Rule), and Peter Friedman (Safe).
She Said will premiere in theaters on November 18, 2022.
Harvey Weinstein Is Serving A Sentence Of 23 Years For His Sex Crimes
Harvey Weinstein abused his power and sexually assaulted women, especially up-and-coming young actresses, for decades. And the most shocking thing about the scandal was that he was allowed to do so. Many women tried to speak out but were silenced by threats of lawsuits. He even used a notorious corporate intelligence agency to surveil and slander his victims.
However, karma hit Weinstein all at once when nearly 100 women came forward with allegations against him. Soon after, his prestigious production company went under, and criminal investigations were launched. Weinstein was found guilty of third-degree rape and sentenced to 23 years in prison in March 2020. Weinstein is also facing more charges of sexual assault in California and the UK. The former Hollywood mogul has tried to appeal multiple times, but chances are he’ll spend the rest of his life in prison.