When eventual Pulitzer Prize winners Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey published their first New York Times investigation into Harvey Weinstein’s decades of sexual abuse and harassment in October 2017, the journalists had only a handful of accusers willing to go on the record.
In the months and years that followed, more than 80 different women eventually accused the Hollywood bigwig (and now convicted and jailed rapist) of a litany of crimes over many years.
Kantor and Twohey’s investigation didn’t just set a course for a reckoning for Weinstein and his crimes but helped ignite the entire #MeToo movement on a global scale.
That Weinstein’s downfall was the product of diligent reporting, dogged persistence, and the resilience of a few brave souls is essential to remember.
In Maria Schrader’s “She Said,” we’re reminded of something else that makes for one hell of a movie: It was women who did it.
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