Welcome to You Can't Make This Up, a companion podcast from Netflix.

I'm Melissa Slaughter and I'm hosting this week's episode.

Here in You Can't Make This Up, we go behind the scenes of Netflix's original true crime stories with special guests.

This month, we're bringing you a film that was inspired by an international event.

The Londramat uncovers the secrets of the Panama Papers and the world of offshore banking.

Don't think that affects you?

Well Director Stephen Sutterberg, screenwriter Scott C. Burns, and journalist Jake Bernstein

want you to know just how the tax evasion of the

Uber wealthy can trickle down into your everyday lives. They'll also dive

into the comedy and drama of how they took a political scandal and adapted it

into a feature film. Now here's Jake, Stephen, and Scott.

Hi I'm Stephen Soterberg, I'm the director of the laundromat. I'm here with our writer and producer

Scott Z. Burns and Jake Bernstein, whose book Secrecy World was our jumping off point and we're going to take a quick spin through

our process of getting this thing onto a screen.

My name is Jake Bernstein and I was a senior reporter with the International Consortium of

Investigative Journalists on the Panama Papers Project and I joined with hundreds of other journalists from 80 different countries I think to investigate this leak of a Panamanian law firm called Mosak-Fontseca.

And I did that for about a year, and then we published in April of 2016,

and it was a huge story all over the world, but there were still aspects of it that interested me,

the questions that I hadn't been able to answer in part because of the nature of the investigation

and because it's such a dense and interesting topic

this subterranean financial system that exists that people kind of know about

but had never been able to see in this way. And so I decided to do a book,

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