Bombshell (2019)

Speaking up is never easy, especially when the person you're speaking up against holds your career in his hands. Jay Roach's "Bombshell," written by Charles Randolph, dramatizes the real-life scandal that rocked Fox News in 2016. When former anchor Gretchen Carlson (Nicole Kidman), recently fired, files a sexual harassment lawsuit against network chief Roger Ailes (John Lithgow), star anchor Megyn Kelly (Charlize Theron), already embroiled in a public feud with presidential candidate Donald Trump, must decide whether to come forward with her own experience. Kelly's decision could protect other women, but it could also end her career and alienate her colleagues. Caught in the middle is Kayla Pospisil (Margot Robbie), an ambitious young producer, a fictional composite of several real women, who is learning the cost of getting ahead. Her private meeting with Ailes is one of the film's most uncomfortable and powerful scenes. Kate McKinnon plays her closeted colleague and friend, and Malcolm McDowell appears as media mogul Rupert Murdoch. As more women speak out, one of the most powerful men in media faces a reckoning. The film won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling for its remarkable transformations, and Theron and Robbie both earned acting nominations. You'll hardly recognize Theron as Kelly.