Dunn’s lawyers wrote the filmmakers a letter in November 2015 that stated that he believed the scene cast him as some kind of conspirator in the cover-up of the abuse, and that the portrayal was defamatory. In March 2016, the distributor Open Road films issued a statement that said, “Spotlight contains fictionalized dialogue that was attributed to Mr Dunn for dramatic effect. We acknowledge that Mr Dunn was not part of the Archdiocesan cover-up.”
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