A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Beirut

Your character in the film is very smooth-talking kind of guy. He seems to be able to talk his way into, or out of, any situation. Essentially playing the lead, playing the hero.

I think the interesting thing about this is that when we meet Mason first he is that kind of smooth-talking diplomat. He has a beautiful wife, beautiful house, beautiful wife, beautiful everything. That, of course, all goes away. I think what ends up happening to Mason is that cynicism takes hold and he loses track of what it is that he does, which is negotiate, make deals, get people in the room, compromise, talk.

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If you have conflict you have to resolve it and the best way to do that is to get in front of somebody and talk to them face to face. Everyone is fake newsing themselves into their own weird little rabbit hole; but it still holds true that when you get two people actually talking to one another face to face, generally without a camera on them, you can make a deal.

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Tony Gilroy wrote the first draft of this script nearly thirty years ago. So much has changed since then, and the film seems timelier now than it could have been in the nineties. Do you know how the film changed over since its inception?

Tony was Tony Gilroy, capital T, capital G back then. He wrote it on spec; right after his first feature which was The Cutting Edge. But he wrote it in , I was still in college, pre-internet.

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So we were still kind of in that Reagan-era. Nevertheless, there was still a lot of buzz around it; people wanted to be in it. Enough time has passed where that gives an interesting patina to this whole story. That was interesting to me. We took that exit ramp to sort of start that fire but we never really tended it or put it out. So, here we are thirty years later.

I think if anything the story has gotten more resonant given the time that has passed. The film is dealing with a climate in these countries that remains equally as fraught today. I think that there is still a way to solve this. I think the will is there, I think people really want…look, what Mason knows that is important is that human beings are all the same. We want to go home at night to a safe place, put some food in your belly, you want somebody to love you, someone you can love back. Nobody is born with hate in their heart.

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Brilliant piece of writing, brilliant direction by Bartlett Sher, great performances. I just talk to people. I believe in the human condition, I believe in the human spirit. It was early one morning in October in Beirut, Lebanon. Terrorists drove a truck loaded with 12, pounds of explosives into the atrium of a building housing the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit. The explosives were detonated, razing the four-story steel and concrete building, killing Americans, and injuring many more.

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