(15 Sep 2015) KEATON, MCADAMS, SHREIBER ATTEND TIFF PREMIERE FOR 'SPOTLIGHT'
Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo, and Liev Schreiber walked the red carpet Monday (14 SEP 2015) for the Toronto Film Festival premiere of "Spotlight."
It's the true story of how the Boston Globe newspaper uncovered the Massachusetts Catholic sexual abuse scandal.
The Oscar-nominated, and Golden Globe winning Keaton plays the team editor of the investigative reporting team. It's a role that he was honored to play.
"Proud. Very proud. Obviously (this is) a worthy exposition of something that actually occurred and is occurring probably right now. So I'm really proud and proud to be a part of a really good group of actors and creative people and a great director, but you know probably more proud of doing a film that's about what it's about," he said.
Keaton addressed the problem of newspapers slowly going out of business as news delivery has shifted to television and the Internet.
"I'm a newspaper junkie. I like newspapers and it's sad, they just don't have the resources anymore to keep up and I think we're saying goodbye to them, which is really really unfortunate. Maybe not but it looks like it," Keaton said.
The film tells the story of The Boston Globe's investigative team and how they broke the Massachusetts Catholic sex abuse scandal story. They won the Pulitzer Prize for the coverage in 2003.
McAdams shared Keaton's passion for her role as a reporter and the importance of newspaper journalism.
"I mean extraordinary. It's an important story to be told. I don't think it can really be told enough. I think that (director) Tom (McCarthy) has found a really unique way of telling this story and bringing out even more kind of facts and enlightening the world to what happens even more so I just feel very privileged to be a part of it and to get to have played this amazing reporter, Sacha Pfeiffer, who just works so hard, you know, this kind of old-fashioned investigative reporting that is dying out. It's good to remind ourselves how integral it is and how needed it is," McAdams said.
Ruffalo agrees to some extent, but also sees it another way.
"It's a really difficult time for news right now. In one sense, the sort of centralized, big publications are shrinking or dying, in another sense online journalism is growing, more independent journalism's growing. So I'd like to see our press become truly free. Part of why this story took so long to break, I think, is because of pressures from institutions to hide or to cover for other institutions. So, yeah, it's a tough time for press but also think it's an exciting time for media," Ruffalo said.
Schreiber said he learned much from making the film, but it wasn't only about the story. He was equally disturbed about the decline of investigative reporting through newspapers
"You know, I'll tell you, having researched so much of it for 'Ray Donovan,' it wasn't the Catholic church aspect that really captured my imagination because I was kind of familiar with that but what really captured my imagination was how we're losing newspapers and how quickly we're losing newspapers and how important, how vital they are, particularly these types of journalists, how vital they are in our society and in our culture as watchdogs, and we have to make sure that they continue to get the resources they need to run these kinds of investigations," he said.
The film was shown out of competition at the Venice Film Festival and is screening in Toronto as a special presentation.
It opens 6 November in the US. The movie travels next to the Adeleide Film Festival on 17 October 2015.
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