Reintroducing Spike Lee: legendary filmmaker, veteran actor, powerful producer, Oscar-winning screenwriter and — Sept. 11 conspiracy theorist? While speaking with New York-based survivors of both Sept. 11 and the ongoing public health crisis, Lee said he felt a responsibility to ask “tough questions” that triggered emotionally raw responses from interviewees on camera. “The most moving thing to me, not including archival footage, are the interviews with the people who lost loved ones,” Lee said. ... [It’s] hard to ask questions where you know people are going to break down. But I got to ask those questions.”But not everyone was so willing to open up to Lee, who revealed that the New York Police Dept.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 24, 2021 19:30 UTC