Keaton: Yeah. Once I go, I don't know, are we going this or not? They say, yeah, we're doing it. Then I go, okay, now I'm going to overthink it, but until then, I don't want to think about it.
Wait until it's a thing, depending on things like COVID....
Keaton: You want to say, like Joe Pesci from My Cousin Vinny... It's a thing, but it's not a thing.
Worth just landed in a big deal with Netflix, and Barack and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground. This was a movie that premiered at 2020 Sundance, and usually when a film sits unclaimed that long, that's that.
But this is going to be a big launch timed for the 20th anniversary of 9/11. For how long was that the plan?
Keaton: A long time. I'm fortunate enough to be successful at this, and be able to do something that might actually [help people]. Clean and Sober. I have people come up to me all the time and talk
about that movie and how much it helped them. When I did My Life, I did it because I thought, if this helps five people, this is worth it to me. Worth is one is those. It falls in that column, and then we
went and made it, and when it went to Sundance, the response was good, but we all thought timing is important, and so when they said let's wait for the anniversary, I said, good idea. And now that the
Higher Ground has come forward with Barack and Michelle Obama, and Netflix, well, it was the smart thing to do, to hold onto that movie.
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What part of playing Kenneth Feinberg most interested you? That was a tough job he took on, assessing the value of lives lost in the 9/11 terror attack...
Keaton: So, the interesting thing about Ken Feinberg is, he thought, I can do this, it's the right thing to do. That takes a big ego to think you could pull that off. Then he got into it, he went,
holy moly, I now realize the emotional toll. How do you determine the monetary value of lives lost?
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