![]() ![]() “I wanted them to feel safe in the space of the film: that we weren’t just hijacking their lives, that we absolutely respected them and admired them for being part of the project,” she said. Kantor and Twohey facilitated introductions to these sources, and as she began writing the script, Lenkiewicz spent time with Perkins, Madden and Chiu. “To me, this film returns them to Hollywood with a dignity and respect they were never given the first time around.” “Famous actresses got much of the attention during the #MeToo explosion, but these little-known women were in many ways the heart of what happened,” Kantor wrote in an email. Both women ultimately left the film business, as did Madden. Perkins reported Weinstein’s alleged behavior but was, along with Chiu, pushed to sign a comprehensive nondisclosure agreement. Zelda Perkins (Samantha Morton) and Rowena Chiu (Angela Yeoh) were both assistants in Miramax’s London offices in the late ‘90s when Chiu told Perkins that Weinstein had attempted to rape her at the Venice Film Festival. ![]() “We all felt that Weinstein had taken up enough oxygen for several lifetimes and I couldn’t envisage writing a script with him in it.”Ī propulsive procedural that, like the Oscar-winning “Spotlight,” shows the persistence, institutional support and good, old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting it takes to uncover long-buried truths, “She Said” is a celebration of the determined journalists who managed to crack the case and, especially, the unsung women who came forward to share their stories after their Hollywood careers were sidelined.Īlong with Madden, two other women become crucial sources in the investigation - and characters in the film. “The film is not about Weinstein, it’s about a collective of women who break down decades of silence through their bravery,” said Lenkiewicz, who began adapting the investigation by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey even before it was published as a book in 2019. If you were in a newsroom during #MeToo, you know it wasn’t a witch hunt it was like watching a mile-high dam break. Entertainment & Arts Five years after #MeToo, I am haunted by the stories we could not tell
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