George Clooney

And so I felt like it was a good time to reinvest and talk again about the importance of news.

And then as we were leading up to this new election, about May of, not this last May, but the May before it, we'd gotten a conversation.

Grant and I had

decided to try to adapt it into a play.

It's harder than you think because, you know, you can't just cut from one scene to another.

You actually have to walk on stage from one place to another.

It's a very different kind of tale.

But I thought that the themes were still really urgent.

And I thought it was important to remind ourselves of how important telling the truth and holding truth to power was.

And so we started working on doing the play.

With the intent that we would try to have it out by the first of the year, having no idea what the election would be, because either way, it seems like truth has become something that's negotiable suddenly.

That's the one thing that wasn't part of the...

the narrative as much in 2005.

What's become the narrative now is don't believe what you see.

You can tell a lie and say it's fact now.

And also you can see factual things and say, well, those are fake.

And those are dangerous.

You see that happening in Darfur right now.

even though the people who are committing the crimes are actually posting video of the crimes, the government still says, well, no, that's not what's happening.

We've seen it, obviously, in Ukraine.