also appears in the closing credits with blooper reels showing the characters, real and fictitious alike, laughing over their lines or over their inability to remember them. But there is a final trick here, a "hoax within a hoax": the real characters are shown joking, giving the false impression that they are voluntarily part of the hoax. In fact at least one of these "jokes" - Kissinger saying that he would do it all over again - appears in Les hommes de la Maison Blanche where he turns out to be actually talking quite seriously about the war in Vietnam. Cast As themselves Christiane Kubrick is Stanley Kubrick's widow. Jan Harlan is the executive producer for all Kubrick's films from Barry Lyndon on. He also is Christiane Kubrick's brother: they both appear discussing the "plot" of the film on the same couch. Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld, Alexander Haig, and Lawrence Eagleburger were members of Richard Nixon's cabinet while the latter was president. Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin was the second man to walk on the Moon as Apollo Lunar Module pilot of Apollo 11. The alcoholism and depression problems mentioned in the film are not fictitious: he discussed them in his autobiographic book Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon. Lois Aldrin was Aldrin's wife when the film was shot. They divorced in 2012. David Scott and Jeffrey A. Hoffman are both retired NASA astronauts. Scott walked on the Moon as commander of Apollo 15. Farouk El-Baz is an Egyptian American scientist who worked with NASA on the Apollo programme, on the training of the astronauts in observations and photography, the analysis of data returned from the Moon, and the supervision of the work of geoscientists and engineers in fields related to lunar exploration. Since 1986 he has been a professor and the director of the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University. He was never technical director of NASA as said in the film. Richard Helms was director of the CIA during the Nixon presidency, from June 1966 to February 1973. Vernon Walters has a particular importance in the film because of his involvement in the Moon race, and the competition with the Soviet Union. He was interviewed because of his in-depth knowledge of these aspects. He died a week after the first interview he gave to William Karel, preventing a scheduled second interview from taking place. The sentence