hands from the top down. in your previous stories, how did you persuade women to tell you what had happened to them? the case i made was, i can t change what happened to you in the past, but together we may be able to help protect other people. rather than weinstein, who denies sexual assault, the movie is more about the individuals who spoke out. what is it exactly that we re looking at here? we re looking at extreme sexual harassment in the workplace. the two journalists who first broke the story hoped it would make an impact, but they never imagined how huge that impact would be. women all over the world start coming forward. and we re looking at it going, oh, my god, the stakes are even higher than we knew. and we thought we had understood this story. but we certainly never could have predicted that we would be part of a story that helped kind of ignite change at this level. and it s been.
of multiple women helped bring the movie mogul down. our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba has been speaking to the journalists who broke the story and the actors who play them in the film. hi. we re from the new york times. i believe you used to work for harvey weinstein? it was just over five years ago that jodi kantor and megan twohey wrote their ground breaking story. it didn t just affect the cinema industry. it reverberated around the world. the two journalists are played by carey mulligan and zoe kazan. i asked them how much responsibility they felt telling the story like this one. a huge amount, a huge amount of responsibility towards the subjects of the film, and towards everyone who contributed to the original story, a lot of whom who are portrayed in the film. yeah, i don t know if i can say it any better than that. you know, we felt this enormous responsibility to tell the story conscientiously. and i think we felt like we were in really good
human rights spokesperson, more than 300 people have been killed in iran, in the protest so far, including 40 children. that is the latest update on the number of people in those protests that have been sweeping iran following the death and custody of a woman, a kurdish woman wearing a headscarf in the wrong way who had been taken into custody by the morality police. un human rights spokesperson saying now it is believed more than 300 people have been killed in those protests, including 40 children. in 2017, an investigation into the film producer harvey weinstein by the new york times helped the #metoo movement spread around the world. a new film details how the testimony of multiple women helped bring the movie mogul down. our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba has been speaking
in your previous stories, how did you persuade women to tell you what had happened to them? the case i made was, i can t change what happened to you in the past, but together we may be able to help protect other people. rather than weinstein, who denies sexual assault, the movie is more about the individuals who spoke out. what is it exactly that we re looking at here? we re looking at extreme sexual harassment in the workplace. the two journalists who first broke the story hoped it would make an impact, but they never imagined how huge that impact would be. women all over the world start coming forward. and we re looking at it going, oh, my god, the stakes are even higher than we knew. and we thought we had understood this story. but we certainly never could have predicted that we would be part of a story that helped kind of ignite change at this level. and it s been.