Michael Shannon

There will be no statues of them.

No songs of praise.

I'm gonna put Herman Goering on the stand, and I'm gonna make him tell the world what he did.

So that it can never happen again.

No.

I brought you here to show you that before the bullets were fired, before tens of millions of men died, all of this started with laws.

This war ends in a courtroom.

You know, I was able to do some research that was helpful, a lot of breeding.

In addition to his work on the Nuremberg trials, I mean, throughout his career, he was a part of so many momentous decisions in the court's history.

But I feel like he's a pretty plain-dealing, straight-shooting kind of guy, you know.

And...

What was really fascinating to me was just how extraordinarily difficult it was for him to do something that seemed very logical and necessary.

How much opposition he met at every step of the way.

How many people said, you know, you shouldn't do this, or this isn't how we should handle this situation, or let's just shoot him.

Which was the prevailing sentiment among...

a lot of the people in power in America at the time.

Yeah.

And then now, here he is, you know, talking to this very well-meaning, at the time, doctor, and still just meaning so much obstruction.

And it goes all the way throughout the story.

And I think you finally actually, in the showdown with Goering, see him really start to lose it a little bit.