When Bryan Cranston signed on to play news anchor Howard Beale in the Broadway adaptation of Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky’s 1976 film “Network,” Donald Trump was still just a washed-up reality TV star. Lee Hall adapted Chayefsky’s screenplay for the stage, and acclaimed avant-garde theater director Ivo Van Hove staged a prescient media satire that is just as relevant today as it was in 1975 — if not more so.
In a sit-down interview amidst previews for the sold-out run at the Belasco Theatre, Cranston spoke to IndieWire about the play’s renewed relevance in today’s climate, and his first time seeing Lumet’s film.
“I saw [“Network”] when I was in college when it first came out, and it was stark. It was mind-bending and oddly funny, and far-fetched. It was not even connected, in my mind, to a real possibility because, at the time, I thought that everything...
In a sit-down interview amidst previews for the sold-out run at the Belasco Theatre, Cranston spoke to IndieWire about the play’s renewed relevance in today’s climate, and his first time seeing Lumet’s film.
“I saw [“Network”] when I was in college when it first came out, and it was stark. It was mind-bending and oddly funny, and far-fetched. It was not even connected, in my mind, to a real possibility because, at the time, I thought that everything...
- 12/6/2018
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
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