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How Sacha Baron Cohen Learned to Stick to the Script Working with Aaron Sorkin

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Ramin Setoodeh New York Bureau ChiefIn “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” Sacha Baron Cohen set aside his bag of improv tricks to portray “Flower Power” activist Abbie Hoffman.

The drama, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, unravels almost like a play, following the real-life story of the seven defendants charged with federal offenses for supposedly inciting protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. (If only Sorkin knew how timely his movie would be in 2021 when he first wrote the screenplay in 2007.)“I’d be lying if I wouldn’t say I wasn’t nervous to work with Aaron, because he’s the greatest living screenwriter,” Baron Cohen tells Ben Affleck in Variety’s Actors on Actors, presented by Amazon Studios. “He’s the Shakespeare of our.

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