She Said Movie Details:
Based on | She Said by Jodi Kantor Megan Twohey |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Drama |
Release date | October 13, 2022 (NYFF) November 18, 2022 (United States) |
Running time | 2hr 9min |
Age rating | R |
Starring | Carey Mulligan Zoe Kazan Patricia Clarkson Andre Braugher Jennifer Ehle Samantha Morton Ashley Judd |
Directed by | Maria Schrader |
Screenplay by | Rebecca Lenkiewicz |
Produced by | Dede Gardner Jeremy Kleiner |
Cinematography by | Natasha Braier |
Edited by | Hansjörg Weißbrich |
Music by | Nicholas Britell |
Production Company | Annapurna Pictures Plan B Entertainment |
Distributor | Universal Pictures |
She Said Movie Cast & Characters:
- Carey Mulligan as Megan Twohey
- Zoe Kazan as Jodi Kantor
- Dalya Knapp as Talia, Jodi’s older daughter
- Emery Ellis Harper as Violet, Jodi’s younger daughter
- Patricia Clarkson as Rebecca Corbett, Investigations Editor at the NYT
- Andre Braugher as Dean Baquet
- Frank Wood as Matt Purdy, Investigations Editor at NYT
- Tom Pelphrey as Vadim “Jim” Rutman, husband of Megan Twohey
- Adam Shapiro as Ron Lieber, NYT writer and husband of Jodi Kantor
- Jennifer Ehle as Laura Madden, 1990s Miramax London assistant and abuse victim who never signed an NDA with Miramax
- Lola Petticrew as young Laura
- Samantha Morton as Zelda Perkins, 1990s Miramax London assistant, abuse victim and witness
- Molly Windsor as young Zelda
- Angela Yeoh as Rowena Chiu, 1990s Miramax assistant and Weinstein rape victim
- Ashley Chiu as young Rowena
- Edward Astor Chin as Andrew Cheung, husband of Rowena Chiu
- Emma Clare O’Connor as Rachel Crooks, Trump’s sexual misconduct accuser
- Sarah Ann Masse as NYT journalist Emily Steel who broke the Bill O’Reilly sexual harassment case. Masse is an actress who was sexually harassed by Weinstein in a 2008 nanny interview.
- Katherine Kendall as the Miramax executive who gave Kantor the tip to interview Laura, Zelda, and Rowena. Kendall was a young actress in 1993 who was sexually harassed by Weinstein.
- Lauren O’Connor as the voice of herself, reading her 2015 Weinstein Co. memo on Weinstein’s abuses.
- James Austin Johnson as the voice of Donald Trump
- Ashley Judd as Herself
- Keilly McQuail as the voice of Rose McGowan
- Anastasia Barzee as Lisa Bloom
- Mike Houston as Harvey Weinstein
- Gwyneth Paltrow as the voice of herself
- Leah Kreitz as Gwyneth Paltrow’s assistant
- John Mazurek as John Schmidt, CFO of Miramax who knew about hush payments to victims
- Peter Friedman as Lanny Davis, Weinstein’s representative
- Zach Grenier as Irwin Reiter, the Weinstein Co. accountant who leaked the O’Connor memo to Kantor
- Sean Cullen as Lance Maerov, board member of the Weinstein Co.
- Jason Babinsky as David Glasser, Weinstein Co. president
- Alex Hurt as jerk guy at bar
Storyline:
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who together broke one of the most important stories in a generation— a story that shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood and impelled a shift in American culture that continues to this day.
She Said Movie Budget & Box Office Collection:
Budget | $32 million |
Worldwide Collection | $13.9 million |
About She Said Movie:
She Said is an American drama film directed by Maria Schrader and written by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. The film stars Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan as Twohey and Kantor, respectively, and follows their New York Times investigation that exposed Harvey Weinstein’s history of abuse and sexual misconduct against women.
The film is based on the 2019 book of the same title by reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey.
In April 2018, the film’s production companies, Annapurna and Plan B, partnered to acquire the rights to the story even before the book was published.
Filming took place in New York in July 2021 with cinematographer Natasha Braier. The film was shot in the real New York Times building and is the first movie ever to use the real offices.
The film cast includes three Oscar nominees: Carey Mulligan, Patricia Clarkson, and Samantha Morton.
She Said had its world premiere at the 60th New York Film Festival on October 13, 2022, and was released in the United States on November 18, 2022, by Universal Pictures.
The film received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the screenplay and the performances of Kazan and Mulligan. She Said was also named one of the best films of 2022 by the American Film Institute. However, it was a box office flop, grossing $13 million against a production budget of $32 million.
The film was nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Mulligan and Best Adapted Screenplay for Lenkiewicz at the 76th British Academy Film Awards. It also earned Mulligan a Golden Globe Award nomination and Lenkiewicz a Critics’ Choice Award nomination.
The film was made available for VOD on December 6, 2022, followed by a Blu-ray and DVD release on January 10, 2023.