- What's one trick of the trade or lesson
that you've learned from someone on your cast?
- I learned that if you've given someone three pages
of dialogue to do in one take - [Meryl] The night before
that it's not a great idea to walk up
to them first thing in the morning
and go so I though about changing some of the round.
- Thank you very much.
(laughing)
- Especially if English isn't their first language.
- Thank you very much, thank you.
That was, wow.
- Well the laundromat is a story
about Mossack and Fonseca which was
the law firm that was implicated in the Panama Papers leak.
And it is sort of an anthology story
of crimes against humanity perpetrated
by our current financial system
and it tracks one Ellen Martin
who is a victim of one of those crimes.
- When I first heard about the Panama Papers,
my attention was drawn to it because
of the bold face names associated with this expose.
I became aware of it, the deadlier aspects
of the Panama Papers when I got more involved
with the committee to protect journalists
a few years ago because I felt the press is under siege.
And it's because of the bravery
of over 300 journalists including
this man who brought the Panama Papers
to the attention of the world
and did the deep, deep forensic digging
on who was involved and people,
journalists have died because of it.
- [Interviewer] And speaking of that information,
a lot of that is delivered
through some amazing dialogue scenes
with the two of you talking
to the camera and getting us through all that.
Tell me how challenging that was
to be explaining all this,
but also doing a lot while it's happening
and how the two of you worked out through that.
- It was as challenging as it was fun at the same time.
Trying to understand, my character
for example she was playing hers before,
it's a guy who since he was a little kid
has a vocation for helping others
and at some point of his life he discovered
that it was actually easier and more profitable
to help himself and knowing Mr. Mossack
and who was going to tell him
that he was going to be performed
by Antonio Banderas in the movie.
And so that's what he does, you know,
talk to the audience and trying to explain
what and trying to save himself
in the public eye all around
the world richer and they're not very successful.
- Yeah it's just a whole different experience
speaking directly to the audience.
I've done it in the theater,
but it's a whole different scene talking to the camera
and occasionally if the camera is close enough
you see your reflection, so it's a little disconcerting,
but we had a great deal of fun doing this.
- It's a hard topic to,
I mean how do you encapsulate this world
and the focus and when Steven and Scott,
Steve Soderbergh the director and Scott presented
it to me that they wanted to do it in an anthology way,
I though it was brilliant and that they wanted
to do it in a way that had humor was great.
Because it be very dry, it's very complex topic
and not only did they make it understandable for everybody,
but they made the ride very pleasurable,
which is a great way to sort of sneak
in a lot of important information.