The star opened up during seventh annual Marie Claire Power Trip earlier this week. The two-day event brought influential women–like Mulligan, Sydney Leroux, and Jessica Alba–together for a summit that encouraged participants to prioritize what was most important to them, or “power their purpose.” During the event, which was sponsored by Chase and United Airlines, the actress told editors that she and the character she portrayed in the film, New York Times journalist Megan Twohey, shared a devastating experience. She Said follows two investigative journalists (Twohey and Jodi Kantor) credited with breaking one of the most important stories in Hollywood: the sexual harassment of talent at the hand of one of the industry’s most powerful film producers, the disgraced Harvey Weinstein. According to an official statement, the feature-length film is “a testament to the power of investigative journalism,” as the movie details “the journey of reporters and editors engaged in the unrelenting pursuit of the truth and highlights the courage of survivors and witnesses who chose to come forward to stop a serial predator in his tracks” as well as “helped propel the #MeToo movement and fueled a reckoning of the system that had enabled him.” But to Mulligan, it was more than just a story about empowering sexual assault survivors–it’s about healing trauma. “The film touches on postnatal depression. Meghan experienced that. I experienced a really similar thing when I had my first child, and I was sort of blindsided by postnatal depression. I had never really given it a huge amount of thought.” Mulligan continued: “I thought that I was the only person in the world who’d ever had it. And when I read the script, and I saw Megan go through that, I thought, ‘Well, that’s not in the book–you didn’t have to include that.’ And I thought it was so great to see it on screen.” Mulligan, 37, who shares two children–Evelyn, 7, and Wilfred, 5–with her 35-year-old husband, Marcus Mumford (best known as the lead singer of the British folk rock band Mumford & Sons), also expressed a sense of gratitude for the sincerity of the film. “In a way, she was just so open. She was so generous about her life and the investigation, and I think she also understood that, you know, the film is a lot bigger than all of us. It’s bigger than Megan. It’s bigger than the New York Times. It’s really about the survivors. It’s about them,” the actress concluded. She Said will make its theatrical debut on Nov. 18 and will also feature Zoe Kazan, Patricia Clarkson, Andre Braugher, Jennifer Ehle, and Samantha Morton. More News:
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