star olivia wilde might just be the perfect person to retell this story.e's abc's david wright. >> reporter: big brother is watching. >> the party has been >> reporter: george orwell's s distoppian vision of the surveillance state. >> i have to do something. whatever the consequences, i have to do something. >> reporter: "1984." a cold war classic everybody read in high school. now taking broadway by storm. >> down with big brother! down with big brother! down with big brother! >> reporter: not exactly light fare for date night. >> this show comes from a big place of anxiety. >> yes. anxiety is a buzz word for us. >> reporter: model and actress olivia wilde is one of the stars. you may remember her from the hit series "house." >> i did good work yesterday. and i was still fired. >> reporter: where she played 13. >> hey, i'm alex. >> reporter: before that she was alex kelly on the teen drama "the o.c." >> my passion. >> reporter: she also starred as devon finestra. my heart is full. >> reporter: in mick jagger's hbo show "vinyl." so if the 1984 on broadway

iraq celebrates a victory over i.s.i.s., and olivia wilde, tom sturridge and reed birney take to the stage in george orwell's' "1984". >> if it were a brand-new play someone wrote about atie a dystn universe we would accuse them of jumping on a weird bandwagon, but the fact it was george orwell's' words and he saw all this in 1949 is what is so terrifying. >> more on what did happen and what might happen. >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by the following: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications >> rose: you began how? natural style of play. >> rose: luck or something else. >> i felt passionate from the beginning. >> what's the objection lesson. you can be as involved as you want to be. >> rose: tell me the significance of the moment. >> we begin with a look at the news of the week. here are the sights and sounds of the past seven days. >> in iraq, a major milestone in the war against i.s.i.s. the prime minister is declaring victory in mosul. >> an airplane crashed in missis

. >> reporter: model and actress, olivia wilde is one of the as far as.s is your broadway debut? >> this is, yes. >> reporter: what an intense debut. >> it is an intense debut, but i wouldn't want it any other way. >> sunday afternoon. >> reporter: her character, julia, is the ambiguous love interest, who's either betraying the regime or betraying her lover, we're never quite sure which. the production comes at a moment when new york theater is a political hotbed. >> vice president elect >> reporter: last year, the vice president got an earful during the curtain call at "hamilton." ? >> we are the diverse america who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us. >> reporter: earlier in the summer, shakespeare in the park staged julius caesar with suits and red ties. eager to make a scene. >> nazi! >> reporter: and now this. >> yeah. >> reporter: how does this fit in to that conversation about politics and art? >> it's interesting, because this is the least literal of all of those, in terms of reflecting the current politics. th

joining me the stars of the play, tunnel sturridge, olivia wilde and reed birney.s this play relevant to the times we live in in 2017. >> and how. i remember when i read it in 8th grade it was science fiction and now it feels like documentary. the play was done four years ago in london in response to the edward snowden situation. that was the inspiration for adapting it. right after the election this year our producer scott ruby thought this was the perfect time to remind everybody about but the decision to do that was before trump was elected. >> to adopt it. >> it was adopted originally in nottingham five years ago. what's so terrifying for me about his presence is that all of the language or at least 5% of it is taken from orwell's book published in 1949. none was change the or scripted in any way to the trump election. we divided it purely into that purpose. >> rose: does it have more relevance because it was written -- >> if it was a play about a dystopian universe we would accuse them of jumping on a band wagon. it was george orwell's words and he saw all of

with laurence fishburne and olivia wilde, and savages with john travolta and selma hayek. >> when i write i'm never thinking about the movie. i have a clear idea of what the guy looks like, but to attach it to an actor, i really don't. >> the force is expected to hit theaters in 2019. >>> all right, time to get you caught up on all the stars making headlines this week. it's all in this weekend's -- >> extra extra. >> you know her as jean gray from the x-men franchise and also as a villainous bond girl, but you won't see her on social media. >> i'm really old school and i have been a firm believer the less people know about me, the more believable i would be as a character. >> now in character in the new action comedy, once upon a time in venice, starring bruce willis about a man on the search for his kidnapped dog. >> i'm going to get my dog. >> this movie is about what you'll do to get your dog back. i would do anything. >> once upon a time in venice streaming now on amazon and video on demand. >> tyson beckford. hanging ten with a few of his chippendale buddies at the florider wave pool

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wild ride with the president that i love being a part of. but he intuitively determined that it was time to do something differently, and i think he's right. >> joining us me olivia , everyone inside and outside the white house had come to dislike reince priebus, why is that? >> i wouldn't say everyone, but there's certainly people within the white house who have not liked him who have disliked him for a long time, and national committee figures more broadly or anti-establishment types, and i think partly with donald trump he's never going to look inward to blame himself for anything that goes wrong. so he's likely to point the finger at somebody else and that somebody else happened to be reince priebus. we just had this huge event last night with health care which was an embarrassment for this administration. and i think probably that was the last straw when it comes to reince priebus. i think the timeline is a little mixed up. everyone reporting different things about when exactly this became the plan. but it seems pretty clear that there was a lot of buildup. and from the beginning of this administration people were fighting with reince priebus. early on there