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George Clooney on the Involvement of the Murrow Family: ?[Edward?s son] Casey was on the set a lot. [His wife] Janet is long gone, but Casey was on the set a lot. In fact, we shot this sort of piece to go along with the film. It's a documentary. We see Joe and Shirley [Wershba] there everyday and you see Ruth Friendly, and Andy and Dave Friendly there. We shot the piece because I also wanted to be able to say ? Casey was a young boy at the time.
Ruth was married to Fred. But the rest of the guys were around and saw it, and I wanted to be able to go, 'Joe and Shirley were standing there when this happened.' So that when people try to marginalize it and say that it's horses**t and that it didn't happen you can go, 'Well, they were there and they said we were right.' And we wanted to have that on film somewhere.
To me, the biggest thing was that it was important to recalibrate this historical thing. We tested this film and literally twenty five percent of the people didn't know who Joe McCarthy was. They asked us who the actor playing Joe McCarthy was. We wanted to take out one of those ads in the trades that says 'For your consideration for best supporting actor' which I think might be great. We might even get him a nomination because no one could do him better.?
George Clooney on the Involvement of the Murrow Family: ?[Edward?s son] Casey was on the set a lot. [His wife] Janet is long gone, but Casey was on the set a lot. In fact, we shot this sort of piece to go along with the film. It's a documentary. We see Joe and Shirley [Wershba] there everyday and you see Ruth Friendly, and Andy and Dave Friendly there. We shot the piece because I also wanted to be able to say ? Casey was a young boy at the time.
Ruth was married to Fred. But the rest of the guys were around and saw it, and I wanted to be able to go, 'Joe and Shirley were standing there when this happened.' So that when people try to marginalize it and say that it's horses**t and that it didn't happen you can go, 'Well, they were there and they said we were right.' And we wanted to have that on film somewhere.
To me, the biggest thing was that it was important to recalibrate this historical thing. We tested this film and literally twenty five percent of the people didn't know who Joe McCarthy was. They asked us who the actor playing Joe McCarthy was. We wanted to take out one of those ads in the trades that says 'For your consideration for best supporting actor' which I think might be great. We might even get him a nomination because no one could do him better.?