But in the end the old-fashioned play, produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club and Ars Nova, doesn't add much to the age-old conversation about how secretive men unintentionally hurt their families.
However, he wanted to take this conversation to WhatsApp the official app of the secretive underworld.
He could be secretive, calculating (even literally so: numbers figured often in his conversation), and sometimes, to me, insufficiently moved by what I found moving.
In a statement distributed to the press, Williams called the October 2017 letter the "beginning of a conversation" that he never imagined would produce a secretive, multibillion-dollar subsidy package.
In the movie's most artful set piece, his ultra-secretive cabal gathers at a performance of Tosca for an earpiece conversation.
In telephone conversations and face-to-face meetings, members of the EDL's secretive leadership team repeatedly told the Guardian that the group is not racist and just wants to "peacefully protest against militant Islam".
Instead, he launches into a long conversation about politics and foreign affairs, having just returned from a weekend at the secretive Bohemian Grove gathering in California.
And while they did not often make heavy conversation, usually offering just a friendly wave or hello, they also seemed not the least bit secretive or mysterious.
