That one question really got this project rolling,” said Sacha Pfeiffer, a “Spotlight” team reporter, played by Rachel McAdams. “He asked a simple question that kind of embarrassed everyone who had been there. A day before he walked into the Boston newsroom for the first time, Baron recalls that he read a piece by a Globe columnist on a sexual predator priest whose case had been sealed by court order.īaron asked his new underlings why the official records had been sealed and whether the Globe had ever gone to court to challenge the veil of secrecy. When Baron came to the Boston Globe in 2001, he had already established a reputation as one of the profession’s top leaders, after stints at the Miami Herald and Los Angeles Times. Previously a master of coiled machismo (think the title role in Showtime’s “Ray Donovan”) Schreiber in “Spotlight” captures Baron’s coiled intelligence and quiet resolve.
Those who know Baron have been tickled by how uncannily Schreiber captures the real-life editor. While there is not a star turn, the team’s (and the film’s) moral and ethical heart beats in its unwavering leader – the editor, Baron, as portrayed by Liev Schreiber. It captures a four-person reporting team (later joined by many colleagues) relentlessly chasing down the tale, not of individuals’ sins, but a system that condoned the sinners. True to the story of the real-life investigative team it profiles, “Spotlight” does not have a featured star.
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But nowhere is early excitement greater than in the hearts and minds of newspaper people, who see in “Spotlight” an authentic and uplifting movie about a business that has been battered by disappearing ad revenue and an epochal shift of readers to alternative platforms.
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