WEWORK INC.
Leto and Hathaway play
"These are people who had very sincere intentions," Hathaway said on a recent Television Critics Association Zoom panel. "I really think they wanted to make the world a better place. How they executed that is a lot more complicated."
The hour-long drama series, WeCrashed, depicts how Adam developed the idea for
Leto said creators
"Adam set out to build something that he was proud of, something that he believed in," Leto said. "And I think that he set his sights on a pretty impossible goal and achieved something pretty remarkable."
WeCrashed shows Adam claiming he had interest from more investors than he really did. In the show, Adam convinces Rebekah to invest a wedding gift of
The show flashes back and forth between the company's failed IPO and the development of
Some
"This is a painting," Leto said. "It's not a photograph. It's not a documentary. So it's impressionistic."
In the show, Adam persuades employees to join
"One of his superpowers is his ability to use words," Leto said. "I related to that quite a bit, as any artist probably would."
Leto said he had visited WeWorks. Hathaway said she was unfamiliar with the company before playing Rebekah.
Hathaway said Adam and Rebekah's love story attracted her to WeCrashed. In the first episode, Rebekah is not impressed when Adam asks her out.
Adam ultimately endears himself to Rebekah when he stands up to her boss at a yoga studio and demands that he pay her more. In addition to investing her
"Just because people do things that we might disagree with doesn't automatically make them bad," Hathaway said. "At the end of the day, I'm just playing a human being."
Crevello said he and Eisenberg did not want to reduce the Neumanns to caricatures. Crevello said he hopes WeCrashed provokes viewers to debate the
"Were these idealistic visionaries or was there a cynicism there, an opportunism? Or both?" Crevello asked.
In their individual portrayals of Adam and Rebekah, Leto and Hathaway tackled their speaking voices. Adam was born in
Leto said he surrounded himself with Israelis to learn the accent. However, Leto said studying video of Adam taught him idiosyncrasies unique to his character.
"It's a series of habits," Leto said. "It's the way your mouth makes shapes, and everyone learns them differently."
Rebekah was an aspiring actor when she met Adam. On WeCrashed, Rebekah does a poor Russian accent in a performance of Chekhov's Three Sisters.
"I realize there's a difference between an accent and a voice," Hathaway said.
While Hathaway also studied speeches that Rebekah gave over the history of
"He had found a voice and, all of a sudden, I opened my mouth and Rebekah's voice came out," Hathaway said. "In that moment, we found each other on some acting level and as the characters."
New episodes of WeCrashed premiere Fridays on Apple TV+.
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