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REPORTERS JODI KANTOR AND MEGAN TWOHEY OPEN UP ABOUT THEIR HARVEY WEINSTEIN INVESTIGATION FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES, AND HOW ART IMITATES LIFE IN A STIRRING NEW FILM.

What happens when journalists become the story? That's the question Vogue posed to reporters Megan Twohey, 46, and Jodi Kantor, 47, whose 2019 book She Said has become a new film, directed by Maria Schrader and starring Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan. Twohey’s and Kantor’s personal lives are on display, alongside the bravery of the victims who talked to them about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual predation. Here, Twohey and Kantor take us behind the scenes of their Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation, and its journey to the screen.

The first clue that our investigation into Harvey Weinstein might one day turn into a film came, oddly enough, from the producer himself.

It was back in October 2017, the day before we published our investigation into his treatment of women, and Variety had somehow gotten word of what we were up to. The piece revealed that our story was in the works and quoted Weinstein pretending not to know a thing about it. He quipped, The story sounds so good, I want to buy the movie rights.”

At the time, the idea of a movie sounded preposterous. We were rewriting drafts, coaxing reluctant sources, and struggling to force Weinstein to respond to allegations. We were also exhausted, subsisting on takeout and the chocolate almonds our editor stashed in her desk, and could barely see beyond the strict obligations to facts. One night, as we shared a cab back to Brooklyn, we wondered aloud: Would anyone even care about what we were doing?