![]() And it's also true that we were then attacked by the Drudge Report for what would now be called 'fake news.'" So it was a pretty awful thing to happen to her. ![]() This was her first or second week at the paper. The poor woman is based on a real person. Not mine or The Observer's finest hour, has to be said. "That really happened," Hood confirmed, though it did not go quite as it is shown in the film.Īs Bright noted, however, what we see in the movie is close to the real events. In one pivotal scene in the film, all of Gun and Bright's work is nearly undone by one mistake, as a member of The Observer team accidentally changed the American spelling of the memo into British spelling, something The Drudge Report then used to discredit the memo. what would I feel like if this memo landed on my desk?'" "And she then said: 'My way into this is what would I as the unadorned, no-makeup, no-fancy-edges Keira Knightley. "We started wondering whether we should do the blonde hair and the glasses and wondering about prosthetics, but one point Keira said to me, 'You know, the last thing I want is the audience to say, 'Oh, I don't know if I like her blonde,'" said Hood. Hood said that this was a purposeful choice by Knightley. Speaking to Gun, and seeing her in archival footage at the end of the film, it is clear that Knightley didn't try to emulate the look or sound of the real-life Gun. Keira Knightley as Katharine Gun in "Official Secrets." Entertainment One So right there, you are pulling out the highlights," said Hood of the key issue with making Official Secrets. "Obviously, we are compressing a story that took place in real life over a period of a year into two hours. Warning: The following contains spoilers for Official Secrets. ![]() To separate fact from fiction, Newsweek spoke to the real Gun and Bright, as well as Official Secrets director Gavin Hood. Official Secrets is, for the most part, a historical account of these events in 2003, but as with nearly all films based on a true story, some things have been changed to aid the drama of the narrative. Attorney General Lord Goldsmith about Britain's involvement in the Iraq war, the government drops their case against Gun. But when Gun's lawyers threaten to question the U.K. However, when her friends start being interrogated about the leak, Gun confesses to being the whistleblower, leading to her being arrested and taken to court for breaching the Official Secrets Act. covert plan, she decides to leak it to Bright, who works for the British newspaper The Observer, which then publishes it on their front page. In the film, when Gun is sent an email from someone high up in the U.S. Security Counsel to pass its war resolution. The movie tells the story of Katharine Gun (played by Keira Knightley), a translator with the U.K.'s GCHQ who, in 2003, leaked top secret documents to journalist Martin Bright (Matt Smith) that revealed that the American government's plans to apply pressure on members of the U.N. president is accused of pressuring foreign governments for political gain, the story behind the film Official Secrets seems particularly timely. ![]()
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