The Lighter Side of Tragedy –
April 15, 2019 – To shine a spotlight on Purdue, the show decided to have Richard Sackler’s video deposition in one case read out word for word. However, because listening to people read court documents can be dull, Oliver decided to conscript four actors to play Sackler and read the transcript of the video deposition. There’s Batman’s Michael Keaton, and Bryan Cranston, who channeled his Breaking Bad character, the noted drug dealer Walter White. He also brought in Michael K. Williams to read Sackler’s lines in the spirit of his character Omar from The Wire. Finally, he had Mad About You and Spin City star Richard Kind recreate many of the times that Sackler said the phrase “I don’t know” during his deposition…
