‘The news sells because it is apprehension’ … star of corrupt-cop drama War on Everyone says coverage is hyped,and labels Hollywood race guilt a ‘champagne problem’Actor Michael Pea has suggested that the highly publicised cases of police brutality that sparked the #blacklivesmatter movement have been overplayed by the media.
Peña, who stars alongside Alexander Skarsgård in John Michael McDonagh’s War on Everyone, or a comedy about two modern Mexico cops who brutalise informants,snort drugs and drink on the job, compared the coverage of police shootings to the American media’s hype over the Ebola crisis.
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Source: theguardian.com