For the filmmakers behind world premiere 'Sorry/Not Sorry,' the key figure in Louis C.K.'s sexual misconduct scandal isn't the comedian. It's the group of women who spoke out against him.
after Showtime pulled out in June, will reflect how the legacy of the #MeToo movement has impacted the culture around accountability — or not, they say.I think that whatever the response is to the film will be pretty telling about how things have or haven’t changed since 2017,” said Mones.Caroline Suh:
I reached out to some of the people in the article and that made it more interesting because their experiences were a lot different than I had anticipated they would have been. When the article came out, they got a lot of blowback. And there’s a tendency to group them all together as having the same kind of monolithic experience. But in reality, they have different lives. They’re different people. Some of them knew each other, but they had different reactions from each other.I wasn’t a Louis C.
Michael Ian Black is an interesting figure in the film as he reconsiders his own tweets at the time in support of a C.K. comeback.There are several examples in the film of people who have their own personal journey of thinking throughout the story. As he says in the film, he wanted to have a conversation he felt like everyone was having behind closed doors, but no one was willing to talk about. And then he didn’t realize the negative impact that those comments would have.
You titled the film “Sorry/Not Sorry” as a direct response to C.K.’s 2021 comedy special, “Sorry.” What connotations does that hold for you?I always wanted to call the film ‘Sorry’ from the very beginning, because I like the double meanings of it. Sorry, like a sorry situation. Sorry in terms of being apologetic. There’s a slash mark in the middle, hinting at different sides.