00:00Trump targets Oscar winner Parasite, Julia Roberts is set to lead the star-studded cast
00:04of a new TV series, and Ben Affleck is opening up about his struggles with alcoholism.
00:10I'm Tiffany Taylor and right now I've got the top stories you need to know today from
00:13The Hollywood Reporter News.
00:14First, President Donald Trump is taking aim at Parasite's best picture win at this year's
00:19Oscars.
00:20THR's Neha Joy has more.
00:21During Thursday's campaign rally in Colorado, President Trump criticized the Oscar-winning
00:25satire thriller stating how bad the Academy Awards were this year.
00:29Speaking out in front of his supporters, he stated,
00:46Trump continued,
00:55Meanwhile, Neon, the U.S. distributor for the pick, responded mere minutes later in a tweet saying,
01:00understandable, he can't read.
01:01And speaking of controversial presidents, Julia Roberts, Sean Penn, Armie Hammer, and Joel Edgerton
01:06are teaming up to star in Gaslit, a modern take on Watergate that will focus on the untold stories
01:12and forgotten characters of the scandal.
01:14The star-studded series comes from Universal Content Productions and is an adaptation of
01:18the Slate podcast, Slow Burn.
01:20The show hails from Mr. Robot duo Sam Esmail and Robbie Pickering.
01:24A network is not yet attached.
01:26The drama will be shopped to premium cable networks and streaming services.
01:29Esmail said,
01:51He continued,
02:04Roberts will star as Martha Mitchell, an Arkansas socialite and the wife to Nixon's loyal attorney general, John Mitchell.
02:10Despite her party affiliation, she's the first person to publicly sound the alarm on Nixon's involvement in Watergate,
02:15causing both the presidency and her personal life to unravel.
02:19And finally, Ben Affleck opened up in a revealing new interview with GMA about what or who inspired him to
02:24stay sober.
02:25Neha Joy has more on that story, too.
02:27The actor spoke candidly in a two-part interview with Diane Sawyer that aired on Good Morning America.
02:32In the Thursday segment, the actor revealed that alcoholism runs in his family.
02:36For me, seeing my dad was just, he was drunk every day and that was just life.
02:41And as that got worse, that was really, really painful.
02:44While he said that he wished his father had been sober during his childhood,
02:48seeing his father's alcoholism is how the actor says he learned how important it was for him to stay sober
02:53during his kids' formative years.
02:55Affleck credited his children for his decision to go to rehab two times over the past three years.
03:00I really don't want my children to pay for my sins or to be afraid for me, which is one
03:04of the hard parts of being the child of an alcoholic.
03:07During the second part of Affleck's interview on Friday, the actor credited some famous friends for helping him stay sober.
03:13He shared that fellow actors Bradley Cooper and Robert Downey Jr. were helpful and supportive during his sobriety
03:18and called them wonderful men.
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03:26Until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.
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