Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks on Power and the #MeToo Moment
January 03, 2018 22:18
The Post tells of the tense days leading up to The Washington Posts decision in 1971 to publish the Pentagon Papers, the governments secret history of the Vietnam War. The New York Times had broken the story but was prohibited from running the full series after the Nixon administration won a court injunction. Thats when The Post took up the story.
Directed by Steven Spielberg, the film stars Meryl Streep as Katharine Graham, The Posts publisher, who came into her own by defying President Richard M. Nixons order, and Tom Hanks as the legendary editor Ben Bradlee.
It is also the first time these three Hollywood icons have all worked together. I recently spoke with Mr. Hanks and Ms. Streep about the films uncanny parallels with today, their thoughts on the Weinstein moment, and what its like following in the footsteps of what is arguably the best newspaper movie ever, All the Presidents Men, starring Jason Robards as Bradlee.
Read the interview HERE
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