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It was fascinating to play it. it makes you kind of sick to your stomach watching him, but he's not sick to his stomach. he's perfectly happy. >> the sort of trumpian themes here, a guy who is sort of a real estate developer, what we used to call in the '60s a pig, up against this absolute, true-believing, somewhat humorless good person. you capture the humanness of the bad guy. she doesn't capture exactly the humanness of the good guy. it's interesting. it's an interesting counterplay. >> it's very interesting. mike white is a very ingenious writer. he wrote the screenplay. miguel arteta dire...

>> it's very interesting. mike white is a very ingenious writer. he wrote the screenplay. miguel arteta directed it. ewo of them work together quite often. man is best known as a comic writer. it's a very witty screenplay, but he's also a very smart writer who is after bigger game here. >> yeah. >> when he set out to conceive this film, he wanted to write about class divides, the economic inequality, the d degradation of the environment, the future of the human race. big, big ideas, but he reduced it to this group of seven people at a dinner party. and it begins very funny. you almost think yo...