How Accurate Is "She Said"? The Movie vs. Real Life
Is the "She Said" Movie Accurate? Here's What Happened in Real Life
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"She Said" portrays Kantor and Twohey bonding over their struggles and triumphs in both work and motherhood while investigating for The New York Times. In her interview with the L.A. Times, screenwriter Lenkiewicz said she incorporated more of the reporters' personal lives into the film that weren't major plot points in the book. "I wanted to put in as many aspects of being female as possible," Lenkiewicz said. "Megan and Jodi both have daughters, and I didn't think that working mothers had been depicted often, or very well."
Coincidentally, both Twohey and Mulligan suffered from post-partum depression, and emotional scenes where Twohey is clearly struggling to get back to work after her pregnancy play out in "She Said."
"One of the first conversations that Megan and I had was about that, because I was similarly blindsided and really struggled," Twohey told The Guardian. Mulligan understood that, to Twohey, the Weinstein investigation was "something solid she could grab on to when she was feeling this is overwhelming and too much, I don't know how to do it; it absolutely brought her back to more solid ground."