Bryan Cranston Digs into All The Way in a New Interview
In a new interview, Bryan Cranston talks about bringing All The Way to HBO.
HBO is making a bit of a big deal about All The Way, the original movie based on the play of the same name. Bryan Cranston will be reprising his role of Lyndon B. Johnson, and we’ve already seen him in action. All The Way is looking to make a splash, and Bryan Cranston has been giving interviews to various outlets discussing adapting the show for HBO.
Speaking with Variety, Cranston said that he continued looking into LBJ after the play ended win preparation for a slightly more informed take for HBO:
"“[I am] always going back to the actual text, whether it’s the play or whether it’s the screenplay…Then slowly but surely, that character — which started outside of you — slowly starts to come.”"
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Playwright Robert Schenkkan was also on hand to discuss bringing to play to HBO, it had “to be a complete cinematic re-imagination” to make it work. The political nature of the play brings to mind Frost/Nixon, which also started life as a theater production before becoming a film. The difference there, of course, is that Frost/Nixon was not a HBO production.
Revisit the trailer below:
All of the press that All The Way is getting could be a lead-in to an early award season push, but it also comes natural from the theater production of All The Way being such a hit. The play won two Tony awards, including one for Bryan Cranston, and was nominated for several Outer Critics Circle awards. When a play as distinguished as that gets adapted for the screen, it’s a big deal.
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Cranston isn’t the only one that has gotten out to promote All The Way; Anthony Mackie was recently on The Late Late Show to talk about both the play and Captain America: Civil War.