The 20th Anniversary of 'Shattered Glass' with Writer-Director Billy Ray

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🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Bryan is joined by Billy Ray, writer and director of ‘Shattered Glass,’ a movie that covers the Stephen Glass New Republic scandal, for the 20th anniversary of its release. They discuss Ray’s experience transitioning from writer to director, how he cast Hayden Christensen as the lead, what it was like writing for a protagonist such as Glass, how Tom Cruise received a producer credit, and much more! Host: Bryan Curtis Guest: Billy Ray Producer: Erika Cervantes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.7	Brian Curtis of the Ringer here along with producer Erica Servantes.
0:50.7	If you don't meet, you know I'm interested in movies about journalists.
0:54.6	Well this is the 20th anniversary of writer-director Billy Ray's movie Shattered Glass, which
1:00.2	belongs in the modern journalism movie Pantheon.
1:03.9	The movie is about Stephen Glass, this Wonderkin new republic writer who had a knack for
1:09.3	reporting incredible stories.
1:12.1	Except that Glass was making up a lot of the details, as a Forbes reporter and then Glass's
1:16.7	own editor would learn, leading to a huge scandal.
1:20.9	Billy Ray for his part did a skillful job taking a story that occurs mostly in Glass's
1:33.1	mind and making a movie that's really about this inner-office face-off between Glass
1:38.2	and the new republic's editor Chuck Lane.
1:41.0	What Ray wants to describe is the least popular kid in school squaring off against the most
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