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began in November — takes significantly more time. Over two and a half hours, down from an initial six, he morphs into the notorious newsman, who arguably did more than any single person to create the deeply fractious political environment we're living in today.
Though Ailes himself is now conveniently out of the way — he died in spring 2017, less than a year after stepping down amid those mounting harassment claims — Showtime and production company Blumhouse will have to contend with the other real people whose stories are being portrayed.
The resistance only grew fiercer. Ailes hired private investigators to have him followed and, allegedly, operatives drew up a 400-page dossier designed to smear his reputation. At one point, Sherman received a death threat at his home that he reported to the NYPD.
The Blumhouse trio wasn't interested in pussyfooting around the subject, however. It would need to be real names, real drama, which posed additional challenges. In fact, an agent whom none of them will name warned them against pursuing the project if they ever wanted to work at any Fox entity again. "Of course," Blum says, "that just moved it up to the top of our priority list.
Though Crowe, too, has a relationship with the Murdochs, he opted not to reach out as part of his extensive Ailes listening tour, arguing that it would be "unfair to them" because the family is portrayed in the series; he did, however, sit with Rupert's ex-wife Wendi Deng and nearly a dozen others who knew or worked for Ailes. Through a mutual friend, Crowe's been sending occasional messages to Lachlan as well.
In offering an explanation, Crowe is blunt to the point of dismissive. "[Gabe's] got a perspective. He's put that perspective down on paper. I've already taken it in. I don't need more of [Roger's] peccadilloes, I've got fucking 600 pages of it," says the actor. "And, in a certain way, I've got to start being on Roger's side a little bit — and even that's a journey to totally expose him and bring him down.
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