Rose McGowan on Harvey Weinstein’s Guilty Verdict, and Neuroscience on the Campaign Trail

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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🗓️ 28 February 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

After a Manhattan jury found Harvey Weinstein guilty of two of the sex crimes he was charged with, Ronan Farrow sat down with the actress Rose McGowan, one of the women to speak out against the movie producer, whom she has said raped her in 1997, at a film festival. McGowan tweeted about the assault in 2016, not naming Weinstein but leaving no doubt as to whom she was accusing. “Could you have imagined at that point,” Farrow asks her, that “we’d be sitting here talking about Harvey Weinstein getting convicted?” McGowan takes a long pause. “No. But I did think there could be a massive cultural shift. That I knew.” McGowan later went on the record for Farrow’s reporting on the Weinstein case, which received a Pulitzer Prize and helped to launch the #MeToo movement. “It’s been an odyssey for both of us,” she said. Plus, using E.E.G. sensors and heart-rate monitors, a company investigates how political candidates engage our attention and emotions.

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0:00.0	From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is The New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:10.0	Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick.
0:13.5	Last week, Harvey Weinstein was convicted in New York City on some but not all of the charges against him.
0:19.7	It was nevertheless a cathartic moment
0:21.7	for the many women who have accused him of sexual assault.
0:25.0	That's about 100 people at this point.
0:27.9	Ronan Farrow broke the Weinstein story for the New Yorker,
0:30.7	sharing the Pulitzer Prize with reporters for the New York Times.
0:34.1	And after the verdict, he sat down with the actress Rose McGowan
0:37.4	for an episode of his show show The Catch and Kill podcast.
0:41.9	Thank you for doing this today.
0:44.1	I feel like you're the person more than anyone else that I wanted to hear from today
0:49.9	just because of how long you've been in this pushing for some kind of accountability?
0:55.9	Yeah, it's been an Odyssey for both of us. Yeah, and here we are sitting here today. What a day.
1:03.0	What were you doing when the verdict came across?
1:05.5	I last night stayed up until 5 in the morning staring at my computer because I knew and I had been
1:12.1	for a week, you know, I was tasked with, you have to write something if he's found not guilty.
1:18.3	You have to write something if he's found guilty. And it just, it just spun my brain out. I couldn't,
1:23.7	I actually started crying and I fell asleep at 5 in the morning. I was like, forget it. And I slept through it. I woke up at 11 and checked my phone.
1:32.1	I was like there were a ton of messages and I was braced myself. And then I realized, much like through the entire trial and the jury deliberations, very few people reached out to me at all.
1:42.4	So just by sheer volume, something could happen
1:44.7	because that's when they come out.
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