Zoe Kazan Describes Synching With Her Real-Life Character In ‘She Said’ – Contenders New York

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Zoe Kazan recalls her research for playing New York Times journalist Jodi Kantor in the film She Said taking on a “mimetic quality” as the real-life similarities accumulated.

At Deadline’s Contenders Film: New York event, Kazan described feeling “in communion” with Kantor, one-half of the duo who broke the Harvey Weinstein story. “Our kids went to the same preschool.

We’re taking the same subway to work. The New York Times building is down the street from all the theaters I’ve worked at,” she said. “I felt like, ‘Oh, I know Jodi — we wear the same backpack to work!’ There’s some sense in which, she’s a Brooklyn mom, I’m a Brooklyn mom.” An additional “deep tie with Jodi,” she said, was their shared experience of having their parents provide child care for their toddlers.

Given the subject matter explored by the film, it highlighted “the intergenerational tie between women.” The Universal Pictures film, which is directed by Maria Schrader and hits theaters November 18, takes a deep dive into the misdeeds of Weinstein, the former movie mogul who was convicted in New York of sexual assault and has been accused by 82 women of a range of crimes.