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Villarreal: What were you least prepared for coming into these roles and the media attention that would surround the dramatization of this real-life case?

The dramatization of migrant roundups incorporating actors and TV characters like Dr. Phil legitimizes the ICE raids and makes for good TV.

McKenna remembers holding the dying boy — although the boy did not die in his arms, as happened in the movie dramatization.

The new biopic of Maria Callas follows the takedowns of fictional conductor Lydia Tár and larger-than-life Leonard Bernstein with a dramatization of the most compelling singer I’ve ever encountered — live, on recording, on video anywhere.

“The Saints” examines its subjects as human beings, flaws and all, in dramatizations that have the kind of cinematic feel viewers expect from a Scorsese project.