John Lithgow takes on the fall of Fox News' Roger Ailes in the upcoming 'Bombshell'
Playing a historical figure is an actorly rite of passage, but lately John Lithgow seems to want to play them all. In just the last year, the former “3rd Rock From the Sun” patriarch appeared as both Bill Clinton and Donald Trump , as well as Winston Churchill on “The Crown,” and, come December, disgraced longtime Fox News chief Roger Ailes in Jay Roach’s new docudrama “Bombshell.” If you thought you saw Rudy Giuliani on “Colbert” last month, surprise! That was Lithgow too.
“Bombshell,” which follows three women who take on the toxic male culture at America’s most popular cable network, depicts the fallout of a #MeToo scandal in a workplace where “feminist” is still a dirty word.
Theron and Kidman could draw upon thousands of hours of footage in preparing to play Kelly and Carlson, but Lithgow says it was difficult to find video of Ailes. “He didn’t go public a lot. He would never be a talking head on Sunday morning. He didn’t want people to see him. I finally found one three-second clip of him walking from a building to a car, and that’s how I knew how to walk. He wanted people to see Fox, but he didn’t want them to see him.
Recently, Lithgow has taken a more satirical approach to Republican leadership, having just published a poetic diatribe called “Dumpty.”
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