Controversy over Oscar front runner film Spotlight, Billy Crudup speaks out.
Channel: Catie Lazarus
Date: 15/12/2015

Billy Crudup spoke to Catie Lazarus on Employee of the Month Show about portraying a polarizing character, lawyer Eric MacLeish in the phenomenal film Spotlight, which chronicles The Boston Globe's Spotlight Investigative Team as they reveal the Catholic Church's systemic cover up of sexual abuse. Eric MacLeish is alive and does not like how he is depicted, although he supports the film.

Eric MacLeish's real life saga, which The Boston Globe is also chronicling, could be its own Lifetime Movie. Crudup spoke about  the larger mission of the film, which is, by all accounts, accurate and honest, and his own goal as an actor. 

Alongside Crudup, Spotlight stars Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, Brian d’Arcy James and Stanley Tucci as it depicts how the Boston Globe earned a duly deserved Pulitzer Prize for its investigation and, more importantly, revealed a city wide crisis of abuse, which the Catholic Church covered up for decades. We are all guilty, meaning there was more everyone could do, yet Boston's religious, legal, and government establishments and even The Globe failed to respond for years. The case sparked investigations all over the world. Directed by Academy Award-nominee Tom McCarthy and written by McCarthy & Josh Singer, SPOTLIGHT is a thoughtful look into what it takes to do due diligence as a journalist and one of the largest cover-ups in modern times.

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