Paul Haggis Talks Scientology in SoHo

ShutterstockStingHaggisTribecaPaul Haggis‘ latest film, Third Person, opens in the UK Friday. To set the cinematic scene for readers there, Hermione Hoby caught up in New York with the writer-director for a weekend piece in The Telegraph.

Haggis understands that because he remains Scientology’s highest-profile “apostate,” conversations with journalists will inevitably turn to that subject. He rejects the idea that what he did was courageous, and says with time came even more perspective:

“I had no clue how insidious it was until I’d been out for, like, a year.

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