Open Road Films Published: September 2015 About The Production Although isolated cases of sex abuse by Catholic priests had been reported by the Boston Globe prior to the Spotlight investigation, the team’s in-depth, scrupulously fact-checked expose revealed the scope of clergy-perpetrated crimes-and the Church’s involvement in protecting their clergy from the criminal justice system-with never-before-seen …
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Yahoo! Published: April 14, 2016 Rachel McAdams, the actress who portrayed a Boston Globe reporter in the Oscar-winning “Spotlight,” believes journalists should be praised as “unsung heroes,” although nothing is easy about their jobs except for the frumpy clothes they get to wear. “It really is a dying art, and not for the faint of …
Hello! Canada Published: February 1, 2016 As she receives her first Oscar nomination Rachel McAdams gets candid about her most challeging roles and how she manages her feelings Canadians have yet another reason to be proud of Rachel McAdams. In projects as diverse as The Notebook, Mean Girls and True Detective, the actress played roles …
People Magazine Published: February 22, 2016 Nominees at the top of their game talk about their breakthroughs, their biggest challenges and what matters most to them – plus, they answer questions from one another. Rachel McAdams Best Supporting Actress Nominee – Spotlight, plays: Sacha Pfeiffer, a Boston Globe reporter who exposed sexual abuse in the …
Hello! Magazine UK Published: February, 2016 The actress is in the Spotlight again, in a true-life tale of scandal and cover-ups. But the Notebook star tells that she’ll always be in love with romance… She enjoyed huge success with films including cult comedy Mean Girls and ultimate weepy The Notebook and now Rachel McAdams is …
Courier Mail Published: January 27, 2016 RACHEL McAdams first shot to fame in such quintessentially ‘girlie’ movies as Mean Girls, The Notebook and Wedding Crashers. But the Canadian actor has changed gears of late venturing into edgier fare beginning with last year’s second season of True Detective and the gritty boxing drama, Southpaw. Now in …
St. Thomas Times-Journal Published: January 15, 2016 On the grandest night of his daughter’s career, Lance McAdams just might be watching the Oscars at home on TV while Rachel’s mom Sandra sits nervously in the audience. The day after Rachel McAdams earned a supporting-actress nomination for her role in Spotlight, dad was calmly packing his …
Hello! Canada Published: January 15, 2016 “This is such an incredible honour. I am shocked and delighted,” reads a statement from Rachel McAdams, who is celebrating her very first Academy Award nomination. Come Oscars night, the Canadian star will battle it out for best supporting actress for her spell-bounding performance as real-life journalist Sacha Pfeiffer …
Boston Globe Published: January 14, 2016 Actress Rachel McAdams wasn’t up for Thursday morning’s announcement of this year’s Oscar nominations — not because she’s too cool to care, but because she thought they were being announced on Friday. “I had the day wrong. I was in a deep, deep sleep,” she told us. “I was …
The Wrap Published: December 23, 2015 Four decades after All The President’s Men, Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight has put newspaper reporting back on screen The Boston Globe’s investigation into pedophile priests in the Catholic Church in 2002 is the subject of Spotlight, an ambitious drama that brings together a high-powered cast led by Michael Keaton and …
News.com.au Published: July 26, 2015 “I’D be a mess,” confesses Rachel McAdams at the thought of dating a boxer. The Canadian-born actor is promoting her upcoming drama Southpaw, in which she portrays the tough-as-nails wife of a middleweight champion, played by Jake Gyllenhaal. Having to watch one’s significant other get beaten up for a living …
The Sunday Times Magazine Published: July 05, 2015 Rachel McAdams found fame alongside Lindsay Lohan in Mean Girls — and got so freaked out by Hollywood she nearly quit. Now she’s navigating the red carpet on her own terms Could the careers of two actresses have gone in more different directions than those of Rachel …
The Boston Globe Published: November 29, 2014 For months in late 2001, the Globe’s Spotlight Team chipped away in secret at a story that at first seemed unimaginable — that a succession of cardinals and bishops in the Boston Catholic Archdiocese had for decades covered up the sexual abuse of countless children by priests. In …