Katie Couric was left “shaken” after a 2004 Dateline interview with The Manchurian Candidate cast became “uncomfortable.” The longtime journalist, 63, said on the April 27 episode of Everything Iconic with Danny Pellegrino podcast that star Denzel Washington acted in a “weirdly uncalled for” manner when she began asking questions about politics.
The 2004 general election between President George W. Bush and John Kerry was just months away, and the United States was embroiled in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Manchurian Candidate is a deeply political film about the rise of power of a corrupt politician, to put it succinctly. “I just remember leaving it and thinking, ‘God’… I don’t think I said anything wrong, I don’t know what happened,”
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