During a career spanning nearly five decades, Bob Woodward has interviewed several presidents, dozens of cabinet officials and, most famously, W. Mark Felt, an associate F.B.I. director who helped him piece together the narrative that led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon.

But Mr. Woodward, a longtime Washington Post reporter who is an associate editor at the paper, was heckled on Wednesday night while interviewing the New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey. They are the authors of the book “She Said,” a chronicle of their investigation into the sexual misconduct allegations against Harvey Weinstein and other powerful men that won them a Pulitzer Prize and was instrumental in jump-starting the global #MeToo movement.

The event, at the Sixth and I building in Washington, started with Mr. Woodward referring to “She Said” as “a masterpiece.” At one point, according to an attendee, he said he planned to assign it to his journalism students.

Twenty minutes into the interview, however, the mood changed. Mr. Woodward repeatedly interrupted Ms. Kantor and Ms. Twohey and posed questions that, to many attendees, suggested a lack of understanding of sexual assault and workplace harassment.