- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- It can be funny seeing real-life husband and wife Tracy Letts and Carrie Coon acting alongside Sarah Paulson, Letts ex-girlfriend. Must have been a surreal day on set.
- Matthew Rhys plays Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times (and subsequently to The Washington Post). In The Report, he plays a Times reporter who tries to coax a government worker into leaking a controversial report to the paper.
- Narm: Richard Nixon is portrayed with real audio from his recorded conversations, while an actor with his back to the camera hammily acts them out in a manner very reminiscent of the portrayal of George Steinbrenner on Seinfeld.
- Spiritual Successor: To both All the President's Men (with which it shares both a setting and the Real Life character of Ben Bradlee, though it takes place years earlier) and Spotlight (with whom it shares a co-screenwriter in Josh Singer). Spotlight also features Ben Bradlee's son, Ben Bradlee Jr., in a supporting role.
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