The writer, director and stars of the DarkWaters open up about transforming a complicated true story of a corporate attorney taking on DuPont into a character-driven thriller
"I sensed that to swim upstream in that kind of culture must've been pretty difficult, and there was probably a lot of conflicts in there that I just felt was essential for the storytelling and the wholeness of the story because what makes this movie different than a lot of other movies like this is he's a corporate defense attorney," Ruffalo said. "The DuPont people were people that he worked with and trusted, and he really believed in self-regulation.
"That Tom allowed [this] to happen at Taft law is a testament to his character," said Robbins, who Skyped with Terp and asked him and other lawyers questions whilefilmed at the same Taft Cincinatti office where Bilott is based.
As for why he was such a big part of the film, Bilott said, "I've worked with this family, the Tennant family, and that community for 20 years and I really wanted to make sure that things were done to portray them so people can see what they really went through and to make it as accurate and as representative of what really happened as possible.
While Tennant is no longer living, Camp spoke to his family members, watched video of him and spoke to Bilott, who knew Tennant as the family friend who first got him involved with the case.
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