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25 The crew shoots inside the office of Editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) as characters discuss news stories All photos by Niko Tavernise/ 20th Century Fox For Production Sound Mixer Drew Kunin, The Post isn't his first film with the iconic, award-winning director, Steven Spielberg—that memorable moment goes to the Cold War-thriller Bridge of Spies, starring Tom Hanks and Mark Rylance (Dunkirk), which Kunin, along with Andy Nelson and Gary Rydstrom, shared a Sound Mixing Oscar nomination in 2016. A New York native and 695 member, Kunin is a first-generation mixer and started from the ground up, booming student and indie films before catching a break on Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise (1984). The Post reunites Hanks with Spielberg, and for the first time in her career, Meryl Streep joins his cast in a film that may not have been released in 2017. In March of the same year, actor Oscar Isaac (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) dropped out of Spielberg's The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, for "personal reasons" which shifted the director's focus to The Post. This true story is about bringing long-buried truths to life and the protection of free press under the First Amendment. Streep stars as Kay Graham, the first female publisher of The Washington Post and co-star Hanks as its driven editor, Ben Bradlee. Scooped by The New York Times, they race to catch up and expose a massive cover-up of government secrets that span three decades and four U.S. Presidents.