>> because when they yap hended him he said he was mike finkel. of the "new york times." >> whoa.say, i have never even read a story quite like this. that scene actually happened to you in real life. what was going through your mind when you got that call? >> yeah. it was possibly the creepiest moment of my life. career low feeling terrible strange phone call comes, i thought it was a guy asking what happened at "the new york times" and he's asking me about four murders which at the heart of the story is a huge strategy three children and a wife killed and i was comfound and confused. >>? life we think about the connections we make with other people and often think about them deliberately who do you try to meet and spend time with. what in this story, this experience that you had, revealed the way you can be drawn up in something completely randomly? >> as my -- in my career as a journalist i spept times and p in really unusual places in the middle east, months and months in afghanistan, i thought i could read people. look at someone, i'm not going to get in that car, you're telli

playing michael finkel who's a reporter who has really sort of destroyed his own career at his own hand and your character sees this story as an opportunity. >> right. what's interesting is miker of no, magazine and he was accused of make up facts. >> i did the best with what i have. >> you have a future ahead of you, but not here. >> you learn a lot about someone, how they deal with a situation. >> did you want to meet him before the movie? was it important for you to meet and talk to him? >> yeah. i've played a bunch of real life people. usually they're furious i'm playing them. >> why is that? >> i don't know. you'd have to ask them. >> you say it's me and they say, oh, okay. >> or they'll say brad pitt's playing him? who's playing me? >> he was excited that i was playing him. >> chris if you're hiding something from me,ly find out. >> this isn't the only collaboration between hill and franco. they both worked together in the all-star comedy. >> if it acts up, you can have a finger scoop of nutella. >> the two have been real life friends for a decade. >> i saw him on "super bad" where he was drunk and trying to kiss emma stone. was there that day. >> it was new to me. acto