JWK: What led you to take on such a controversial subject?

Nick Loeb: No one had made a (theatrical) movie on the most famous court case in American history and, as a filmmaker, I was surprised by that…I mean this is a court case that every single American has heard of and no one has done a real full Hollywood movie of how it came to be and how it was decided

JWK: What do you hope people take from it when they see it?

NL: The truth and an understanding of the inner-workings of the Supreme Court. I don’t think many other films have really has really gone into the Supreme Court. I think it’s sort of an interesting look inside at how they make their decisions. They talk to each other and converse. And, really, the truth of what happened and how it came to be.

JWK: I actually did find the Supreme Court scenes very interesting. I never knew or realized that the case was actually heard twice and that the first time there were only seven members on the Court.

NL: Yeah. A lot of people don’t know that.

JWK: You really did assemble an all-star cast for this movie. I mean, besides yourself, you have Jon Voight as Chief Justice Warren Burger, John Schneider as Justice Byron White, Steve Guttenberg as Justice Lewis Powell, Robert Davi as Justice William Brennan and Corbin Bernsen as Justice Harry Blackmun. Plus you’ve got established film and TV stars like Jamie Kennedy, Joey Lawrence and Tom Guiry. Did any of them express any trepidation about how doing a movie like this may affect their careers?

NL: I think a few of them, the younger (cast members) maybe. I think the older ones not so much. I think the younger ones could be potentially a little nervous about it.

NL: When we cast Mike a couple of years ago he wasn’t political. He’s only really become that political (recently). Same with Roger. I mean Roger hadn’t gotten arrested or anything. It’s sort of serendipitous that Roger and Mike throughout the last year have gotten rather well known. You know, listen, they’re in it for thirty seconds.

JWK: This is sort of dangerous territory but I can see a parallel between how abortion has become a sort of unquestioned dogma in establishment media. It’s not really treated as an issue anymore that is in anyway up for debate. There’s no real questioning about it allowed. I kind of see the same sort of media and political forces aligned against even the most basic questioning of last November’s election process.

NL: This is all sort of relatively new in the last couple of months where our speech has been attacked and it’s very nerve wracking.

NL: There’s been some reviews that are out there already that are phenomenal. There’s a review in The New American which is phenomenal.

NL: Yeah, I’m sure when the other reviewers review it we’ll get slammed.

NL: Really the most difficult thing was raising the money. I mean we really only had one person walk off (the set)…That was really it. I don’t think we had any more struggles than most independent films do – which always have challenges. But the media like to embellish it (and) make it bigger because of the subject matter of our film. So, yeah, we had struggles with some locations. We had struggles with one crew member. One actress wanted to do the movie and then changed her mind. Some locations had us there one day then the next changed their mind.

NL: Of course. But, with all of that, on the opposite we had a lot of support. People were coming out and offering us stuff for free. You know, people who were on the other side of the issue.

NL: Sure but most independent movies don’t go on The Today Show anyway. We’ve been getting a lot of press. Look, the average movie doesn’t go on news shows. We’ll be going on Fox and Newsmax and there are also some other shows that we are doing that are more Hollywood focused…Whether they want to support us or pan us, that’s to be determined.

NL: I am personally pro-life, yes.

NL: They gave us money.

JWK: There is a part of the film that I could see as being a bit problematic – where some Jewish and Protestant clerics are portrayed as sort of being part of – or being used – in the push to promote abortion. I’m thinking particularly about the part that deals with having a rabbi on the phone and hooking people up with abortions. I could see how that could be latched onto as an issue.

NL: What’s the question?

JWK: Are you concerned that critics could construe that as sort of anti-Semitic?

NL: That’s completely ridiculous. I’m Jewish.  The producing, directing and writing partners are Jewish. A lot of Jews were involved in financing the film. So, laying out the fact that rabbis were involved in helping people get abortions, I mean, I don’t know how you would see that as anti-Semitic.

NL: We sort of spell it out in the film. Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist. Her focus on creating Planned Parenthood was really to reduce a segment of the population – the Black population, Italians, Jews. It was all folks that she felt were sort of non-worthy of life. Her focus really was through sterilization and contraception. I find it most interesting (that) she was opposed to abortion. If you read her book, she believed also that life began at conception and she was not pro-abortion. When she was alive there was no legalization of abortion. So, you’ve got an organization that makes (millions) a year off abortion (but) their founder was anti-abortion.

JWK: Your movie covers the public conversion of Norma McCorvey from being the Roe in Roe v. Wade to being an anti-abortion activist. I had spoken to her myself when I produced a morning show for the Catholic Channel on SiriusXM and I recall finding her quite convincing. But an FX documentary, which I just recently read about and haven’t seen, apparently claims to have her “deathbed confession” in which she claims her conversion was all a financially-motivated act. I’m sure you’re aware of that. Your thoughts – and do you think that controversy should have been mentioned in your film?

NL: I’m very much aware of it. The movie’s not about Norma. The movie’s about the times Norma was lied to. It’s irrelevant, her position on abortion. And she was really an irrelevant part to Roe. She was used, manipulated and lied to and never talked to again…Who knows the real truth?…I think it’s irrelevant. It’s great fodder for the liberal media.

NL: I completely agree…(We) don’t sit there and tell the audience that these people were evil or bad. We show that they really truly cared about women and that they really thought they were helping women.