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24 million workers have received extended unemployment benefits, according to the labor department. >> i was able to support myself because i received those vital unemployment insurance benefits. >> that money goes right back into the economy, spent on necessities like food and clothing. >> we had a victory today for the american people, and frankly, we also had a victory for common sense. >> without today's extension, the economy would have generated 240,000 fewer jobs by the end of 2014, according to an estimate by the council of economic advisors. and economic output would have been affecte...

Appear reticent to hire people who have been unemployed for a long time, therefore making them unlikely to stay employed. >> exactly. i mean, this is one of, quite frankly, one of the saddest stories of the great recession. you've got a lot of people who have been out there pounding the pavement for months, if not years, trying to find a new job. and each month that they spend unemployed makes it just a little bit harder. employers, you know -- let's think just for a moment about young workers, right? why would an employer hire somebody who's, you know, 23, 24, 25, who's been out of work, when...

I'm like, where is he from? because you nailed the baltimore, american accent in the show. how much vocal work did it take to get that specificity in this role? >> to be honest it was an ongoing process. i didn't stop doing it until the very last day, you know. i worked twice -- i worked with two voice coaches, a woman who worked on mandela's, you know, original tongue, his original language. then there was a woman called fiona, who worked on sort of the technical aspects of what mandela's doing with his voice, his nasal, his palate, all that stuff. so, it was just an ongoing process, you know...

>> why are they opposed to it? what possible -- i mean -- >> they have come -- well, you heard rand paul before. you ran rand paul saying he thought it was a disincentive to unemployment and causes people not to work, which is absurd. the academic research shows just the opposite, number one, and number two, in an environment in which there is simply no employment, which there are three applicants for every job, all that the cessation of unemployment insurance does, aside from making people starve, is remove some money from society, from the economy so that people who no longer get unemploymen...

And that's -- he has a real big presence, you know. he leaves the room, people have an impression made by mandela. so, you know, that was a big, big task for us to try and bring that to life in a movie, you know what i'm saying? like, if you're watching a reality show, you can feel someone's aura and they end up reality shows, but this is mandela. this is a man that, you know, a worldwide citizen. and to try to encapture him into a film, into a character with an actor that doesn't look like him was a big ask for the audience. >> how much was it the voice? i mean, i think people that were first...