The Circle's premise is darkly obvious — the trailers alone are overt PSAs for the evils of social media. So is anyone surprised that things took an awkward turn when the film's freethinking cast did a live Q&A at Twitter with C.E.O. Jack Dorsey?
There was no way this did not end with Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, Patton Oswalt and director James Ponsoldt accidentally roasting Dorsey as he silently fidgeted and fumedThe Circle comes out this weekend and hasn't screened for critics yet, but it's already distributing great, shareable #content.
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