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- How close Netflix's new film The Laundromat is to the real events of the Panama Papers leak from the Mossack Fonseca law firm has been called into question by a defamation suit brought against Netflix by Jürgen Mossack and Ramon Fonseca—a suit the streamer calls "laughable" in their response.
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Oct 25, 2019 · A dual role for Meryl Streep in Netflix's 'The Laundromat' has generated controversy and pushback. The actress and director Steven Soderbergh address claims of insensitivity and appropriation.
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Oct 17, 2019 · By Samuel Spencer. FOLLOW. How close Netflix's new film The Laundromat is to the real events of the Panama Papers leak from the Mossack Fonseca law firm has been called into question by a...
Controversy. The film was criticized for its use of brownface, casting Streep in a secondary role as a Panamanian woman called Elena. Soderbergh acknowledged the controversy, but felt that in the context of the story the dual role was justifiable. He also felt that as a comedy trope it was acceptable and compared it to Oldman's impression of a ...
Oct 18, 2019 · Movies. Netflix's The Laundromat is Based on the True Story of One of the Biggest Financial Leaks in History. Here's what's true and what's fiction in Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio...
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Sep 12, 2019 · In the film’s worst choice, when Ellen’s arc basically ends, it’s as if Soderbergh and his producers were unwilling to say goodbye to the legendary actress, and so they put a costume on her and recast her as a Hispanic secretary at Mossack and Fonseca’s company.
Sep 25, 2019 · Meryl Streep in “The Laundromat,” about the deep corruption documented in the data leak known as the Panama Papers. After opening in movie theaters this week, it can be streamed on...
Sep 27, 2019 · The underlying thread of “The Laundromat” isn’t the personalities and self-justifications of Mossack and Fonseca; it’s the very sense of a complex system that has become both immoral and...
