Will Poulter spoke exclusively with 'Distractify' about his favorite 'Dopesick' scene, unearths he ate fried chicken and was complimented by means of Michael Keaton.
The limited Hulu sequence Dopesick explores the increase of the opioid disaster within the late '90s to early 2000s following the discharge of Purdue Pharma's "miracle pain pill," OxyContin.
The non-linear tale is told from a number of other views, together with Purdue Pharma heads and workers, the townspeople of a small mining community in Virginia, govt officials, and a headstrong DEA agent who's taking a look to hold the profiting pharmaceutical company answerable for an awesome number of drug-related crimes and deaths.
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One prominent storyline in Dopesick follows a budding young Purdue rep named Billy Cutler — performed by way of Will Poulter — who starts to query his company's sale pitch that "less than 1 percent of users become addicted" when the doctor he befriends, Dr. Samuel Finnix (Michael Keaton), falls sufferer to the drug's addictive side effects.
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Ahead of the collection finale, Distractify spoke solely with Will about how the show hopes to wreck the stigma surrounding addiction, and why he could not prevent smiling after Michael Keaton complimented his scene performance.
Will Poulter's favorite reminiscence filming 'Dopesick' ended with Michael Keaton complimenting his scene performance.
Though he has worked with a few of Hollywood's elite, including Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Tom Hardy, Leonardo DiCaprio, and more, the British-born actor could not lend a hand but really feel nervous when performing (and eating fried chicken) opposite Michael.
"I think one of the most enjoyable [memories] is actually a conversation alone, an uninterrupted conversation that I had with Michael's character in Episode 2," the We're the Millers star completely instructed us.
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The scene is more or less four mins of debate that displays the duality and creating courting between Billy and Dr. Finnix.
He continued, "I haven't told this story but I remember being so elated with how it went ... I was so excited about how that scene was going, that Michael had paid me a compliment at the end of the scene, and I had to like put my mask back on in between setups to kind of hide the stupid grin that I had on my face because I was so happy that the scene had gone so well."
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Will added, "Michael Keaton just complimented me and I was having like a proper like, 'What the hell is going on here' moment, but it was very, very cool. And that's kind of etched in my memory from Dopesick."
'Dopesick' big name Will Poulter talks about changing the narrative surrounding addiction.
The 28-year-old actor "really hopes" Dopesick will give folks more of an understanding and emotional awareness in the case of the ones suffering with substance abuse issues.
The limited collection highlights how Purdue Pharma targeted mining and farming communities to launch OxyContin, bribed and falsely advertised their product to docs, and neglected to reveal the unwanted effects of the use of this narcotic — which resulted in a big portion of customers turning into hooked on the pain tablet.
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"I think the narrative that the addicts were the abusers is something that Purdue really preyed upon, and actually when you look at this thing from a kind of eagle-eyed perspective that Danny [Strong] gives ... when you dive into the kind of granulated look of how we got here, you see really quickly that the only people who were abusive in all of this were Purdue and their executives," Will mentioned.
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"The fact that they compounded their criminal behavior with vilifying the people who were made victims of those decisions is just gross," he continued. "I really hope that it resets the narrative, that it makes people think twice regarding how they view addiction and addicts, and they extend a bit of empathy for how many people came to become victims of opioid abuse disorder."
Additionally, Will defined that as a society, we want to forestall "perpetuating harmful stereotypes" relating to discussing habit and as an alternative take a more "humane approach."
You can stream Dopesick on Hulu now.
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