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In the sixth segment in less than two weeks promoting HBO’s movie rehash of the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings, on Tuesday’s NBC Today, weatherman Al Roker spoke to the stars of the film and proclaimed: “Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill are back in the headlines thanks to Confirmation. It’s a dramatized version of the controversial Senate hearings, premiering this week on HBO.”
Actors Kerry Washington (playing Anita Hill), Wendell Pierce (playing Clarence Thomas), and Greg Kinnear (playing Joe Biden), discussed their respective roles. Washington revealed “the hearings had always held a special place for me.” Pierce said of Thomas: “This was a man at the pinnacle of his career, about to, you know, mount the summit, and then something from his past comes back and haunts him.” Kinnear lamented: “It was no one’s finest day.”