Kitty Green did not set out to make the first movie about Harvey Weinstein. But, while she was developing her follow-up to 'Casting JonBenet' the New York Times' story broke and she switched her focus
"The complicated thing about this script is that people can be victims and victimizers at the same time," says Kitty Green of 'The Assistant,' which stars Julia Garner."They're just trying to survive."Casting JonBenet
It was Oct. 5, 2017 — just over a year after Stanford undergrad Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in jail for felony sexual assault — and Green was interviewing a group of Stanford students. That's when she was interrupted by a news alert on her phone — the"A lot of my friends had worked at places like The Weinstein Co. and Miramax and had worked for predatory bosses," says Green of her decision to shift her film's focus to show business.
The film premiered in August in Telluride, after which Bleecker Street Media picked up domestic rights for a Jan. 31 theatrical release in New York and L.A., expanding nationwide in February — conveniently timed to coincide with the Weinstein criminal trial, which begins Jan. 6. Among those monitoring the proceedings closely are Green, who says she was "devastated" by the $25 million civil suit settlement reached between Weinstein and dozens of accusers Dec. 11.
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