‘The Walking Dead’ star Samantha Morton joins solid of ‘She Said’

By ANI

WASHINGTON: Samantha Morton, who lately appeared in ‘The Walking Dead’, has joined the solid of ‘She Said’, a movie primarily based on the investigation into sexual assault and harassment perpetrated by disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.

As per The Hollywood Reporter, Morton will play Zelda Perkins, a former assistant to Weinstein who endured his abuse and later discovered herself sure by constricting NDAs.

Annapurna Pictures and Plan B Entertainment are producing the upcoming challenge that’s already capturing in New York.

Actors Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan are starring as Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, the journalists behind the landmark 2017 expose which helped element the years of abuse, introduced down Weinstein, and helped usher within the #MeToo motion.

The movie is predicated on Kantor and Twohey’s subsequent bestseller ‘She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement’.

Also within the solid are Patricia Clarkson, portraying the Times’ investigations division editor, and Andre Braugher, who will play the paper’s govt editor Dean Baquet.

The forthcoming movie is directed by Maria Schrader, an Emmy winner for her work on the Netflix sequence ‘Unorthodox’, from a script by Rebecca Lenkiewicz.

Megan Ellison will govt produce for Annapurna with Sue Naegle. Oscar winners Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner will produce for Plan B. Universal’s Vice President of Production Lexi Barta will oversee the challenge for the studio.

Morton, a two-time Oscar nominee, lately accomplished capturing ‘The Whale’, Darren Aronofsky’s drama that additionally stars Brendan Fraser and Sadie Sink, and is at the moment in manufacturing as a lead in ‘The Serpent Queen’, a interval drama set in sixteenth century France, for Starz.