I’m Aaron Sorkin, and I’m the writer and the director of “The Trial of the Chicago 7.” “It’s Abbie.” The scene is Abbie Hoffman on the stand. But what’s unusual is that ordinarily the last witness in a trial, that’s usually the climactic scene. He’s going to do it. He’s going to do it fully because that is his job, and he has been directly ordered to by the new attorney General John Mitchell. And there was still, in some people’s minds, a curiosity as to how Sacha Baron Cohen would play a dramatic scene.

Source: New York Times October 16, 2020 10:52 UTC