![]() As an actor, you don't necessarily feel like often your work kind of goes beyond a certain point. But it's a real privilege to be involved in something that is active. WP: Well, from a legal perspective, I often have to finish sentences with ‘in my opinion’. SL: What was it like working on something where the story is still evolving? all of these things seem like points of dramatisation, but they were just kind of cold, hard facts that we were infused into the story. The fact that Purdue fabricated data, the fact that they introduced pseudo scientific concepts into the market. ![]() The bribery, the coercion, the emotional manipulation, the fact that Purdue sales reps had psychological breakdowns of their doctors and they used things in those breakdowns in order to manipulate them. It's certainly disturbing but I think it's more disturbing when you speak to Danny and you find out that a lot of the script is transcript, literally lifted out of the Purdue training pamphlets - there was very little dramatisation. WP: It's really hard to have said half the things that Billy says in the show regarding the amount of lying and the amount of deceit that went into his sort of sales push. How did you get into the mind of someone like that? And how angry were you when you were reading the script? SL: Billy Cutler tells so many lies to sell the drug, it's hard to keep up. But I really didn't know what that looked like, what that meant. I heard of the expression ‘opioid abuse’, I'd heard of Oxycontin and I’d heard of the opioid epidemic. ShortList: How much did you know about the true story of Dopesick before the show? ShortList sat down Poulter to talk about Dopesick, working alongside Michael Keaton and what it's like being someone who has grown up on movie sets. Based on the book Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company that Addicted America, the true tale charts the rise of the horrific opioid epidemic that has spread across America.Ĭreated by Danny Strong (Empire), Dopesick has an all-star cast which includes Michael Keaton, Rosario Dawson and soon-to-be Marvel superstar Will Poulter (he was recently cast as Adam Warlock in The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. Dopesick, the latest Star on Disney Plus show, is a gut punch.
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