When director Maria Schrader and screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz began developing "She Said" as a film, they quickly established a few ground rules.
Their dramatization of the New York Times investigation that toppled Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and triggered a global reckoning would not include visual depictions of sexual assault or harassment. Instead, the survivors — some even playing themselves — would recall the incidents using their own words.
There would be no female nudity and no brutalized victims at the crime scene. Survivors would be fully rounded humans, defined more by their bravery and resilience than their encounters with an abusive Hollywood power player.
