It goes without saying that when Olivia Wilde agreed to star in Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell” she didn’t believe she’d find herself in a controversy over the character she was playing, real-life Atlanta Journal Constitution reporter Kathy Scruggs. The portrayal of Scruggs has been criticised by both independent media who have seen the film and the Ajc itself as depicting Scruggs using sex for sourcing. Following the bombing at the 1996 Olympic Games, Scruggs and fellow Ajc reporter Ron Martz broke a story that the hero who found the explosives, Richard Jewell (played by Paul Walter Hauser) , may have actually planted the bomb..
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- 12/12/2019
- by Gregory Ellwood
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