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Universal Pictures' Frost/Nixon: Preview Screening and Discussion

Friday, November 21, 2008
7:00 pm PT
Los Angeles

In Person

Director Ron Howard and writer Peter Morgan

Oscar-winning director Ron Howard brings to the screen Peter Morgan's (The Queen, The Last King of Scotland) electrifying dramatization of the untold story behind veteran broadcaster David Frost's 1977 TV interviews with disgraced president Richard Nixon. The previously cagey and remote chief executive was, over the course of a grueling series of tense sessions, masterfully drawn out by Frost and tacitly admitted his participation in and regret over the Watergate scandal. Reprising their roles from Morgan's stageplay are Frank Langella, who won a Tony for his portrayal of Nixon, and Michael Sheen, who fully inhabited the part of Frost onstage in London and New York.

 

 

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  • These questions are directed toward Mr. Howard and Mr. Grazer I can't wait for tomorrow night! I do have a question that I would love to know the answer to. Besides talent and marketability, what draws you to work with a particular actor? For example, if the casting process comes down to two top choices, what gives one actor an edge? Also, is there a difference between directing fiction and non-fiction? How true to the real life facts do you feel that you have to be?


    bandgeek, November 20, 2008 at 9:29 pm

  • So looking forward to seeing you 2 re-create your B'way characters on film with the great Director's Eye of Ron Howard . I was able to see you in Ny Previews from the 1st Row center and what this enabled was to see Mr Langella in the Wings as he slipped into the form and stature of Nixon. WOW. MY ?: Will it be or was it, quite a shift to sculpt those characters from Live Performance to the media of Film? Mr Langella How will you make yourself so tall and slumped for the duration of film and all the retakes????


    artsy-writer, August 29, 2008 at 7:19 pm

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