Adam McKay is desperate for mainstream America to see 'The Big Short'.
Adam McKay
McKay's latest effort centres on the financial crisis in the late 2000s and McKay - who is better known for helming comedy movies like 'Anchorman' and 'Talladega Nights' - is keen to reach a new audience with the film, which stars the likes of Brad Pitt and Ryan Gosling.
He shared: "Boy oh boy, would I love for mainstream Americans to go and see this movie.
"That would be incredible. Hopefully with these stars in it, maybe they'll show up."
Although the economic downturn was triggered by a range of different factors, McKay thinks the movie's audience will easily be able to follow its plot.
He told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper: "At the root it's actually not so tricky.
"They just repackage mortgages and debt and give it strange names. Once I knew that I could understand it, I knew you can explain this to people.
"We've gone to malls to test the movie and there'd be 20 people explaining to the person running the focus group afterwards how a CDO works. So that was encouraging."
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