If you still think of actor Ben McKenzie only as a guy who knows his way around the beautiful people of The O.C. or mainly as the star of CW series Gotham , think again. Since the pandemic, he has become a vocal critic of cryptocurrency . His book Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud , co-authored with journalist Jacob Silverman, raised eyebrows in 2023. And this week, McKenzie is likely to again cause debate when he world premieres his feature film directorial debut, Everyone Is Lying to You for Money , at SXSW London on Friday.

McKenzie wrote and directed the cinematic exposé on the world of cryptocurrency and produced it with Giorgio Angelini. Three years of filming took the star to New York, Austin, Miami, London, and El Salvador.

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