The feature film comes at a peak moment in the struggle of women to claim their rights and demand more respect in their workplaces.
Oscar winners Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman will work together on a new project on "The Women of Fox News," which will address the s-xual harassment suffered by women by the network's founder and president, Roger Ailes, according to various reports. media.
Roger Ailes was chosen by Rupert Murdoch himself to become the CEO of Fox News, a position he held for nearly 20 years. In 2016, a series of complaints were made public by some journalists who claimed to be s-xually harassed by Ailes. In the aftermath of the scandal, he resigned from his position to protect "what needed to be done to run Fox News."
The project does not yet have an official name but will be directed by Jay Roach (Trumbo); The Australian will play Gretchen Carlson, the first complainant of harassment and responsible for the movement that was generated in favor of labor rights within the company. Theron will play journalist Megyn Kelly, another key character in the story.
The actress Margot Robbie is negotiating her participation in the film in a role still unknown. The rest of the cast has not been chosen by those in charge of the project either.
The making of the feature film comes at a peak moment in the struggle of women to claim their rights and demand more respect in their workplaces, especially in the entertainment world, which has been shocked by multiple cases of s-xual harassment.
