For many who have joined Hulu Dopsik – An eight-part series about the worst drug epidemic in the country: This was probably the first time they learned about the Sackler family and the sole culprit of their pharmaceutical company. The responsibility fell on both creators Danny Strong (Recalculate, change the game) And the actor didn’t take it lightly.
Star Michael Keaton, who plays a small-town doctor who becomes addicted to oxycontin after prescribing it to patients, told a panel on Deadline’s series of virtual projections that everyone worried about sermon control when they told the story. family.
“Danny and I are going to have these discussions. I was very careful not to be superior but to be scolded. “I was nervous about it from time to time,” Keaton said. Would Danny and I say that tongue twisters do too much? Are we good people? Danny said, “he just tells the story and believes it won’t happen.” “
“Of course there is an element of activism,” Strong said. “It was a big part of my motivation. [offering] Different levels of education and activities. But when you do, at least for me, I have to focus on making the scenes work as much as possible. This other element will take care of itself. In fact, the goal is to create fun, a work of art “.
There is currently a stream on Hulu, Dopsik Also in the cast are Caitlin Dever, Peter Sarsgard, Michael Stulberg, Will Pulter, John Hogenaker and Rosario Dawson. Directed by Barry Levinson, executive producer of Strong, Keaton, John Goldwyn, Levinson, Warren Littlefield, Beth Macy and Karen Rosenfelt.
Check out the previous panel discussion which included Keaton and Strong with Dever, Pulter, Stulberg, and Hugenacker.
Source: Deadline
