Huffington Magazine Issue 1 | Page 26

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