The Newsroom Season 3 aired its pilot episode this week with the Boston Marathon Bombing at the center of the story. Just like the past seasons, viewers saw its characters throw long dialogues at each other. They are so long some people think subtitles should be mandatory. People have a hard time keeping up on the dialogues and it will make you wonder, how much effort does the cast put in to memorize all of them? Olivia Munn, who plays Sloan Sabbith) sat down with the Rolling Stone and answer some questions about the Newsroom Season 3, including the last question you have read.
Compared to Jeff Daniels' Will McAvoy and other characters, Munn's Sloan Sabbith is more technical when it comes to her line since her specialty is economics. Her dialogues use more jargons than any other characters. To be able to deliver those lines perfectly, the Newsroom Season 3 star uses a trick.
"I think the trick is, you go through the entire script first and find the overarching theme. I've usually got a lot of financial jargon to say, or I've got to explain some wonky factual things - why they matter and are important - and do it in a way that's still emotional," Olivia Munn told in an interview with the Rolling Stone.
"So once I go through everything a few times and I know exactly why I'm saying what I'm saying, I can memorize it. If I know I'm saying something I understand and can make it come from my heart, then it's very easy to speak about."
Although unique compared to its competitors on Monday ratings, the Newsroom TV series was also highly criticized. As for Munn, the bad raps that show is getting is one part because they are always the first one to be judged.
"It was interesting that in the beginning...I've said this before, but I think a lot of critics and journalists though that the whole idea behind the show was that we were setting out to be the Monday morning quarterback: "This is how you should have done it. You should have covered the story this way." And knowing Aaron and having been on the show, I find it a little fascinating because that was not the intention at all.
"What I think he was trying to show was just how unfair it has become for journalists to do their job. They have to compete with all these cable news programs and the Internet and everything we've got going on, in terms of Twitter and other social media. Now the job is not just delivering the news; it's scrambling for ratings. It's having to deliver sensationalized stories so viewers will tune in. It's no longer about informing people or telling them a story about the world."
To see more of the interview, visit the Rolling Stone website.
