John Lithgow has always been hungry for a challenge, playing a plethora of roles, from aliens to priests, to sitcom dads, murderers, millionaires, scientists, and schizophrenics. “I can walk down o…
Unlike Churchill, Clinton and the rest of the mic-hoggers, Ailes himself isn’t well-known. He shied away from the camera, preferring to let his protégées be the public face of the network.
Lithgow’s Ailes is an indoor beast, a sexual harasser cushioned by carpet, money, enablers and his own thick padding. He seems to make the very air ripple with tension. Occasionally, he pounces, like when he chases Charlize Theron’s Megyn Kelly around his office, trying to pin her against the wall for a kiss. Usually, however, he’s unnervingly still.
As the scene was written to be sparse, with the emphasis on Ailes and Kayla’s painful silence, Lithgow had to make each word carry extra weight. He added a mournful oboe note to the way Ailes sighs, “You have a great body.” “I have my dander up on politics and gender politics,” continues Lithgow. “I’m full of rage. But I’m in theNot that it was easy to empathize with Ailes. Lithgow started by trying to pinpoint his fears. “In every tyrant, there’s that huge well of insecurity,” he explains. He listened to a police recording of Harvey Weinstein wheedling a woman into his hotel room and was struck by how pathetic—“almost whiny”—the studio boss sounded, “like it’s his injured dignity that she’s saying no to.
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