Hollywood is awash with speculation, spin and yes, self importance but this year, with donald trump in the white house and america deeply divided, real life has thrown up a melodrama which makes the movies look tame. My guest today isjohn madden, and oscar winning director whose latest film is set in the murky world of washington politics. But is hollywood doing justice to the times were living in . John madden, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Lets start by discussing the process of making your most recent movie. Its called miss sloane. But perhaps the most striking thing about it is that you were working in washington, making a film about the underbelly of washington politics at the very time america was experiencing a political earthquake. How disconcerting was that . Well, you know, it was really like, i suppose if i use a movie metaphor, its two trains kind of colliding. But we had no idea this other train was on the track. Im sure im explaining the obvious here but obviously when
Hollywood is awash with speculation, spin and yes, self importance but this year, with donald trump in the white house and america deeply divided, real life has thrown up a melodrama which makes the movies look tame. My guest today isjohn madden, and oscar winning director whose latest film is set in the murky world of washington politics. But is hollywood doing justice to the times were living in . John madden, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Lets start by discussing the process of making your most recent movie. Its called miss sloane. But perhaps the most striking thing about it is that you were working in washington, making a film about the underbelly of washington politics at the very time america was experiencing a political earthquake. How disconcerting was that . Well, you know, it was really like, i suppose if i use a movie metaphor, its two trains kind of colliding. But we had no idea this other train was on the track. Im sure im explaining the obvious here but obviously when
Musical guest, common. And featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove 559, fresno steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy oh, hey, everybody. Welcome welcome please enjoy yourself. Welcome, welcome. Thank you for being here. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Hot crowd, hot new york city crowd [ cheers and applause ] you got style, baby. Welcome to the tonight show. Thank you so much for being here. And thank you for watching at home. I appreciate that. Heres what people are talking about. Last night, the chicago cubs won game two of the world series. [ cheers ] thats right, to tie it up, 11. Yeah, its all tied up, which are the scariest words americans can hear two weeks before the election. I think the election [ laughter ] [ trump voice ] i think the election should also be best of seven. [ laughter ] rigged this is crazy, though. I saw that tickets to world series games in chicago this weekend cost over 2,000 and even the bars near Wrigley Field have
Think, i cant wait to vote for hillary. When you stand next to michelle, they think, youre blocking our view of michelle. [ laughter and applause ] thats right. [ applause ] Michelle Obama joined Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail today. Said michelle, fine, ill go, but im not wearing the necklace. [ laughter and applause ] russian president Vladimir Putin praised donald trump today and said that trump has done a good job of energizing American Voters tired of the elites. Whats more amazing is he said it at a trump rally. [ laughter and applause ] putin dismissed the notion that russias attempting to influencing our election, saying, quote, is america some sort of Banana Republic . No, id say were more like a t. J. Maxx the day after black friday. [ laughter and applause ] id say thats where were at right now. Donald Trump Campaigned in North Carolina yesterday where he laid out his new deal for black america. When asked what black america was, he said, havent decided, but probably
And featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove 559, fresno steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon . . . . [ cheers and applause ] jimmy oh, hey, everybody. Welcome welcome please enjoy yourself. Welcome, welcome. Thank you for being here. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Hot crowd, hot new york city crowd [ cheers and applause ] you got style, baby. Welcome to the tonight show. Thank you so much for being here. I appreciate that. Heres what people are talking about. Last night, the chicago cubs won game two of the world series. [ cheers ] thats right, to tie it up, 11. Yeah, its all tied up, which are the scariest words americans can hear two weeks before the election. I think the election [ laughter ] [ trump voice ] i think the election should rigged this is crazy, though. I saw that tickets to world series games in chicago this weekend cost over 2,000 and even the bars near Wrigley Field have a 250 cover charge. Cubs fans are like, i think i liked it better when we were losing.