David McCloskey

Yeah.

The Raptor case.

But he goes to Hollywood.

Yes, he goes to Hollywood.

I think, not to be a Debbie Downer here, but one of the things that the film leans into very heavily...

is the flamboyancy, the insanity, the over-the-topness of the Hollywood side of this.

I think the reason Mendez picks the Hollywood thing is because he knows that everybody knows a little something about Hollywood and about movies.

Yeah.

And so all six of them will, in a very short period of time, be able to get some veneer of a cover story together.

Whereas boring insurance salesmen... Or being a nutritionist, you've got to learn about nutrition.

There's going to be a technical...

Maybe depth required there that wouldn't be as required on the Hollywood side.

And there's the great line from John Goodman in the film where Ben Affleck, the Mendez character, says, can you train someone to pretend to be a director?

And John Goodman says, you can train a rhesus monkey to be a director.

It's so good.

So, Hollywood...

Hollywood crews are typically international.

So, you know, a group of Canadians coming in, headed in out of Iran wouldn't look strange.

Of all the groups potentially going to Iran in January of 1980, a group of Hollywood eccentrics scouting desert locations in the middle of a revolution.

It seems like something Hollywood types might do.