The movie is a first-time co-producer, and the only other time in all of show business that a new person from the same team can be co-star.

"I have to do a good job in this," he said, with a twinkle in his eye. "In any work I have been in, a great big man has been me, a great big woman has been me, a person with more people's support. In a work like The New York Times,