Byron Allen, the CEO of Entertainment Studios and executive producer of Chappaquiddick, said that powerful people tried to stop him from making the movie about Ted Kennedy’s deadly 1969 car accident. According to Variety, Allen wanted to tell the true story to offer some long-overdue justice to Mary Jo Kopechne, who died when Kennedy’s car veered off the bridge in Martha’s Vineyard. Jason Clarke plays Ted Kennedy and admitted to being nervous when first considering playing the senator. “We’re not making propaganda. Here is this amazing, incredible, traumatic event, which I think has had a massive impact, and still does, and effects the world we’re in now,” Clarke said.
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