NPC conversation on The Trial of the Chicago 7

On February 18, the 51st anniversary of the trial’s end, Aaron Sorkin, the writer and

director behind the film The Trial of the Chicago 7, and stars Sacha Baron Cohen

(“Abbie Hoffman”) and Eddie Redmayne (“Tom Hayden”), will join National Press

Club President Lisa Nicole Matthews for an in-depth discussion on the legacy of the

Chicago 7 and the movie’s relevance today following a year of massive protests and

America’s long-overdue reckoning with systemic racism.

 

"The weird thing when you start out acting is that it's quite a solitary thing. You go

and you make a film or you do a play, you become very close very immediately

with a group of extraordinary people. And you then go off and do another one.

Now...film crews are ofter work in smaller groups together so they might bump into

each other more often. In acting, it doesn't happen so much. Fortunately having been

in it long enough you begin to remeet people and reconnect. For me - Sacha and I,

we've met on Les Miserables. That was an extraordinary experience. We're getting

to work together here, it was wonderful. Mark Rylance who's in the film had given

me my first ever job in a production of Twelfth Night in which he played Olivia

and I played Viola twenty years ago, so I genuinely have him to thank for my career.

Down to Jeremy Strong who was an old (pal) ... it was this wonderful mixture of

people that I haven't seen for a long time, new people, Yahya and Kelvin, whom

I haven't work with, Frank who I had met, so it did have this kind of familial

quality to it, but the most glorious thing was, everyone had totally different

processes, so it felt like all these different ... sort of musical genres colliding..."

Aaron Sorkin: “Anyone who is a fan of Eddie in Les Mis, which would be

everyone, go and also watch The Good Shepherd. It's one of the first films

Eddie did  - Matt Damon and Eddie - And you’ll hear Eddie sing

‘Shenandoah’ like you’ve never heard anyone sing it before.

You can tell from watching it.”

Eddie: "Oh, Aaron I love you, but you’ll also see one of the worst performances

I’ve ever done in my life because I was so terrified about getting fired.

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