Gwyneth Paltrow lends her real voice to SheSaid, the movie that chronicles the journalists who broke the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment story. She is overheard during a phone call scene in the film.
in New York of rape and sexual assault. The notion of Weinstein imprisoned while his accusers are the subject of a major motion picture almost feels like the kind of dramatic twist that could have sprung from a Hollywood script. In court this month, the judge evenBut while Weinstein’s fall from power may be at the center of the film, his face never flickers across the screen. That was a major creative choice.
Rowena Chiu, another Weinstein survivor, provided the film with crucial input. Both she and her husband are characters in “She Said,” and advised the creative team on the accuracy of their storylines. Chiu, who is on the witness list to testify in Weinstein’s current trial, was Perkins’ Miramax co-worker in the ’90s. After she accused the movie mogul of attempted rape at the Venice Film Festival, she and Perkins ended up signing an NDA, in hopes of creating a safer environment at Miramax.
The writer spent time with some of the women who inspired characters in the film, including Chiu, Perkins and Laura Madden, who was the first woman to agree to go on the record for The New York Times and is played by Jennifer Ehle in the film. Gwyneth Paltrow won the Oscar in 1999 for Miramax’s “Shakespeare In Love.” She became a crucial source for the journalists who broke the Weinstein story in the New York Times in 2017.Gwyneth Paltrow, who appeared in several Weinstein movies and won an Oscar for her performance in “Shakespeare in Love,” accused the producer of sexual harassment and became a key source in the New York Times investigation. She helped convince other women to come forward.
The survivors did not have any say in casting but were available as a resource for the performers who played them. Perkins reached out to Morton of her own volition and ended up meeting with the actor. “She was as keen as I, and we spent some time talking to each other in detail about our own individual experiences in the industry and at the hands of abusers,” Perkins says. “Sam was very exacting in terms of detail and how I felt in the scene she portrays, but not to impersonate me.
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