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Laurence Fishburne admits "I'm having my own Dr. Fauci moment!"


https://tvline.com/2020/05/05/black-ish-finale-recap-season-6-episode-21-pops-ruby-laurence-fishburne-interview/

"Yeah, who knew I was going to be Dr. Fauci? I mean, it’s crazy," the Black-ish star says of his role in as CDC director in the movie Contagion becoming prescient amid the coronavirus crisis.

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Dr Fauci is head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, not the CDC.

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He's more like Neil Ferguson... the UK scientist who got cought breaking lockdown to meet his married mistress... Ferguson's analysis is what guided the lockdown decision in the first place...

In the movie... his character tells his girlfriend about the curfew...

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/neil-ferguson-avoids-prosecution-for-meeting-his-married-lover-ckx56nnqw

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Haven't seen the movie. Does Fishburne play a rodent-faced little liar with delusions of grandeur?

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