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Podcast: The Conversation with Dasha Burns
Episode: ‘I used to be very combative’: How starring in ‘Civil War’ changed his politics
Description: The biggest movie in the country right now is about a civil war — in America.If you see the film “Civil War” at a theater in downtown Washington, the scenes of the Lincoln Memorial exploding and the White House being attacked are jarring when you exit into the D.C. air. The movie is writer and director Alex Garland’s very in-your-face attempt to imagine the unimaginable in America — an authoritarian leader in the White House, intractable political differences being resolved through violence and the very specific horrors of modern warfare — urban fighting, refugee camps, mass atrociti...