“If you watch it enough…over and over again, which I did…he reveals a lot about who he is,” says Stuhlbarg. The actor studied the deposition with Zapruder-like attention to minuscule details. So Stuhlbarg did not just watch Sackler’s more than eight-hour 2015 deposition-the transcript of which was likely not much help, given that Sackler at times either deferred to his lawyers or answered tersely. I was so curious about the subject matter, and I found all the other stories, the five stories that are interwoven in this piece, to each be as fascinating as the next.”
WHO PLAYS RICHARD SACKLER IN DOPE SICK SERIES
“I was fascinated about him, by his life,” Stuhlbarg explains, in a conversation pegged to the premiere of Hulu’s limited series Dopesick. Rosenthal ( The Post), and Apple innovator Andrew Jay Hertzfeld ( Steve Jobs)-“there were no reservations.” Clarke ( The Looming Tower), New York Times executive editor A. Earlier this year, in an astonishing testimony, Richard denied that he, his family, or his family’s pharmaceutical company bore responsibility for the opioid crisis in the United States.īut for Michael Stuhlbarg, the Emmy and Tony Award–nominated actor who has prolific experience channeling real-life characters across the moral spectrum-including crime boss Arnold Rothstein ( Boardwalk Empire), counterterrorism government official Richard A. Sackler committed to marketing Ox圜ontin within his family’s company-with sales of the drug rocketing while the opioid death count climbed to more than 400,000 Americans as of 2019. Some actors might balk at the opportunity to play Richard Sackler-the billionaire former Purdue Pharma president and cochairman who is viewed as a central villain in the opioid crisis and the new Hulu limited series about it, Dopesick.
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