Enter
Q&A
Tom Sadoski,
Sam Waterston
and Jeff Daniels
in The Newsroom,
which premieres
June 24 on HBO
HBO
an Internet piece seems cowardly
to me and tends to lead to a mob
mentality. But I have the option
of not reading comments sections, and so I don’t.
Your shows tend to revolve around powerful men — first Martin Sheen, now
Jeff Daniels. Have you ever considered
building a show around a female lead?
There are powerful men on this
show — not just Jeff’s character
but also John Gallagher, Tom Sa-
doski, Dev Patel and Sam Waterston’s characters — but I think
you’ll see that the women played
by Emily Mortimer, Allison Pill
and Olivia Munn are every bit
their equals. (And I wouldn’t
mess with Jane Fonda, Hope Davis or Kellen Coleman either.)
How did you wrangle all of these people?
Half of them were stolen off of
movie sets and the other half were
kidnapped off of Broadway stages.
They woke up in a stupor at Sunset
Gower Studios and the rest
I’m not allowed to tell you.
HUFFINGTON
06.17.12