‘The Report’: How Maura Tierney Grappled With Waterboarding Scenes and CIA Torture

‘Enhanced Interrogation’

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The Golden Globe winner talks playing a CIA agent who oversaw gruesome interrogations, how she feels about the end of “The Affair,” and playing someone, for once, you root against.

Senior Editor, Obsessed

Published Nov. 14 2019 4:49AM EST

Something unsettling happens when Maura Tierney appears on screen in The Report. You don’t like her.

It’s an unfamiliar position to be in, and quite disorienting after following the actress’s work over the last 30 years in projects like NewsRadio, ER, Beautiful Boy, and The

Kevin Fallon

Senior Editor, Obsessed

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‘The Report’: How Maura Tierney Grappled With Waterboarding Scenes and CIA Torture

The Golden Globe winner talks playing a CIA agent who oversaw gruesome interrogations, how she feels about the end of “The Affair,” and playing someone, for once, you root against.

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