Soon,John Magarowas added to the cast.
This film takes the perspective of the ABC Sports crews coverage of the internationally traumatic events.
Benesch plays Marianne Gebhardt to Magaros Geoffrey Mason, two pivotal crew members operating within the behind-the-scenes chaos.
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The film co-stars Saarsgard andBen Chaplin.
COLLIDER: I think you should be in a great mood.
This movie is I’m gonna curse, and I apologize this movie is fucking awesome.
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JOHN MAGARO: Oh man, thank you.
I’m just throwing that out there.
You should both be so proud of this one.
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LEONIE BENESCH: Yeah!
You guys both read, I’m sure, a lot of scripts.
MAGARO: Too much.
During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
It was a lot.
This is one of those where it feels like you’re in the room.
I felt like I’m a borderline invisible person watching everything unfold.
Because it looks like a documentary at times.
BENESCH: It was very, very, very exciting.
I was like, Yeah, sure, we’ll see.
But then you don’t know, of course.
But you don’t know until you show up.
MAGARO: We had an amazing ensemble.
Everyone was there most of the days, and everyone was focused and working.
You had this camera crew, and you had to navigate through them.
They gave us all the tools to work with.
They gave us a playground to play on.
It was a ship that Tim set on a great course and navigated us through it.
MAGARO: It might be on you, so you better be ready.
But it keeps us on our toes, and we’re all game.
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That sort of manic energy.
MAGARO: I was most impressed by the editing.
[Hansjorg Weibrich] did amazing work.
MAGARO: So much footage.
It blew me away.
BENESCH: Yeah, same.
MAGARO: I think we’re gonna say the same thing.
BENESCH: I think you should talk about the thing that you said.
MAGARO: The answer for that, that we both agree on, is our scene at the end.
They said they’re impressed by how I called the show.
It just felt like second nature doing it.
I had time to work with the headsets and all that stuff.
So I felt very comfortable.
It had become like an extra appendage.
MARGARO: Almost like melodramatic.
BENESCH: We felt like you were explaining the film at the end.
MARGARO: It felt wrong.
But this was atruecollaboration across the board, and I think that’s why it works.
September 5is now playing in theaters.
