She Said stars praise women who spoke out against Harvey Weinstein. The movie had its world premiere at the London Film Festival on Friday, Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan play the award-winning journalists who broke the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment story.
“„[I felt] a huge amount of responsibility towards the subjects of the film and towards everyone who contributed to the original story. The fact that it was these two women, with a collection of incredibly courageous survivors and witnesses, that ran this story that really changed the world. I think that deserved a place in history. I loved the idea of being able to cement that in people's minds that it was Megan and Jodi and incredible survivors and witnesses who made this possible.- Megan Twohey
“„Right now. It feels like an inevitability that Harvey Weinstein would be brought down because of his behavior. But in 2017 when they were putting the story together [it] was anything but.- Zoe Kazan
“„It's not smug or preachy and gives space to the non-glamorous figures, Excellent performances bring out the best in this David and Goliath story that reverberated around the world.- Charlotte O'Sullivan
“„People who are vulnerable are entrusting you with these stories and you're just terrified of making a mistake. And then you know, once we saw the impact that the story was having, we felt even more responsibility because the stakes just kept going up. After we published women all around the world start coming forward and we're looking at it going, 'oh my God'. The stakes are even higher than we knew.- Zoe Kazan
“„In those first hours and days after the story was published, our emails and our phones were flooded with other women who were coming forward with their own stories of abuse and harassment. And not just in Hollywood but in all different professions, from all different walks of life. And to watch the #MeToo movement go viral, and for so many survivors to take to social media to share their own stories was just incredible to observe. A really, really significant cultural shift that Jodi and I could feel almost immediately.- Megan Twohey
“„There are undeniable changes. I mean really concrete things like having an intimacy coordinator on set for any scene that requires that kind of work. That said, we have so we have so far to go and I think that one of the reasons to make a film like this is to show how change happens. And that it happens incrementally and with a tremendous amount of work and and a tremendous amount of bravery behind it.- Zoe Kazan
“„From my layman's perspective, the most important impact, thus far, of the #MeToo movement being propelled by the story is the channels of communication that have been opened up for people to talk about things. I don't think it was as easy for men and women to talk about experiences like this five years ago. And I think that can only be a positive step in continuing this conversation. I don't know if films can change the world. But I do think art plays a part, and telling a story in a different way that perhaps is accessible to people is a part of it.- Carey Mulligan