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Safe House, Daniel Espinosa  Interview by Rob Carnevale  DANIEL
Espinosa talks about some of the challenges of directing Safe
House and why he didn’t set out to make an action movie. He was
speaking at a UK press conference for the film.  Q. The film
seems to be so contemporary, what with the WikiLeaks angle and
also the elements of water-boarding… was all that there in the
screenplay you saw initially, or was that added through further
research that you all did?  Q. Given that these guys are in a
world of secrecy, was it quite straight-forward finding out some
of the stuff you found out, and getting people to talk to you –
such as the consultant on set? Daniel Espinosa: What moved me
about our consultant was not so much the practical expertise,
but when shooting certain scenes I could see that he was
emotionally moved sometimes and when we started talking we
talked a lot about how this work that he had done had affected
his personal life and how i