‘She Said’ offers a powerful exposé of abusive Hollywood systems | Opinion
Contributor Ya'Ke Smith writes about the film "She Said," out this weekend, about the New York Times reporters who broke the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse story, and the entrenched systems that protected him.Imagine you’re 21 years old and just secured your dream job working for one of the best film studios in Hollywood. You get to meet all the A-list actors and work with Academy Award-winning producers and creatives.
The meeting finally arrives, but it quickly takes a turn for the worse. Instead of asking you about your career aspirations, he asks you for a massage. Then he expects you to watch him take a shower. Then he promises that your career will take off if you acquiesce to his advances—and that your career will end right here, right now, if you don’t.
detailing years of sexual abuse that countless women had endured at the hands of Weinstein. They followed up in 2019 with the book. Now their story has been adapted into a film directed by Maria Schrader, who won an Emmy for last year’s beautifully devastating limited seriesIt’s all at once a tribute to the survivors, a rebuke of the sophisticated system that allowed this abuse to persist for over three decades and an ode to journalism.
“This film is about what we did not know. About how the story came about, and who was behind it,” Schrader told me in an advance interview last week.
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