EP Eric Newman & Consulting Producer Barry Meier talk about the tragedies of the opioid epidemic and the pain caused by the Sackler family.
The Big Picture The limited Netflix series Painkiller, based on the book by Barry Meier and the New Yorker Magazine article “The Family that Built the Empire of Pain” by Patrick Radden Keefe, explores the origins of the opioid crisis in America and the destruction that it has left in its wake.
ERIC NEWMAN: Anyone who spends any time in this world, and no one has spent more time in this world than Barry [Meier] has, leaves it, I believe, with an obligation to get this story out to as many people as you possibly can. Our goal was always to make the most accessible version of this story, that tonally didn’t feel like heavy lifting and that wasn’t mired in the grief that, of course, characterizes a lot of the story.
Barry, as you were hunting down this story and compiling what this eventually became, what was going through your head, along the way. I would imagine you had no idea what this would eventually become, what you would learn, and how all of these puzzle pieces would fit together. What was it like to keep uncovering more and more of that?
MEIER: It’s funny because, when I wrote the book, it actually was optioned, at that time, by Anonymous Content, who wanted to turn it into a movie. They were so drawn by the story. The problem was that, at that point in time, it was still several years away before Purdue Pharma was found guilty of the very crimes that I was showing they had committed in Pain Killer. People in Hollywood were going, “They haven’t been convicted.
MEIER: I met Matt on set, and he was amazing as Richard. We were talking and he said to me, “Well, what’s your sense of who Richard Sackler is? Who is this person?” And I said to him, “Well, I don’t know.” I never spoke with him. I never spoke with Arthur Sackler either. But the impression that I came away with is that they were flip sides of the same coin. Arthur Sackler was someone who never believed that he was wrong and would never be convinced that he was wrong.
What are you hoping for, with the perspective of Griselda, where it is a woman at the center of it?
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