'Scott got what he deserves': In an exclusive interview, Aaron Sorkin opens up about reopening To Kill a Mockingbird without its disgraced producer.
How does it feel to haveopening back up again, and with Jeff Daniels and Celia Keenan-Bolger reprising their roles?Well, I’ve been looking forward to this for a year and a half. We started rehearsal again two weeks ago today, and I was just so happy to be back in that rehearsal room. I was happy to see the team. Having Jeff back, having Celia back, is fantastic. And we’re not just dusting it off.
[Director] Bart Sher and I have that in mind as we reapproach it. However, racism in this country didn’t begin in the last 18 months. It didn’t begin in 1960, when Harper Lee published the novel, or in ’61, when the film came out. So unfortunately, it’s a pretty sturdy story. But that said, there are things that we’re doing in this 2.0 production that I wouldn’t want to give away. But everything that’s gone on—George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, the BLM movement—is on our minds as we’re doing this.
and this play. Do you have a relationship with him anymore? What is it like to sort of see this unfold with someone who was your collaborator? In a lot of these follow-up articles that you mention, it was pointed out that many of his collaborators, including you, have not spoken up. How much responsibility do you think people have to answer these questions?story had come out and nothing had happened as a result—that everybody just kind of shrugged and said, “Oh, well, that’s Scott, that’s show business”—I would have felt compelled to say something, to say, “Why are we still working with him? We shouldn’t do this.
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