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....maybe, SATAN?!?
I finally got round today to watching Frost/Nixon, the fiction-depiction of Tricky Dick's 1977 interviews by the UK's most famous talk show host eva, and I have to say, the main characters NAILED their performances.
My question is pointed across the pond to those who know both Sir Dave and the personage of former PM Tony Blair, who Frost performer Michael Sheen also played on two prior occasions, most notably in Stephen Frears' adaptation of The Queen. Did he come across to you, as he did to me, as emimently believable playing both parts?
I speak from some experience, at least as to the former. I distinctly remember Frost's early 1970s syndicated show on United Statesian television, which our local channel 5 carried from 8:30 until the start of Bill Jorgensen's newscast, intro'd with the haunting intonation of "It's 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?"
Could a performer convey Frost's vapidness and Blair's Number Ten-ness with equal verisimitude?
Why am I asking you?!?
For what it's worth, I was equally impressed with Frank Langella's impression of Nixon, but it's not the same. I still mostly associate him with his 1979 portrayal of Dracula, so taking on the role of Nixon wasn't nearly as much of a reach for him.
I finally got round today to watching Frost/Nixon, the fiction-depiction of Tricky Dick's 1977 interviews by the UK's most famous talk show host eva, and I have to say, the main characters NAILED their performances.
My question is pointed across the pond to those who know both Sir Dave and the personage of former PM Tony Blair, who Frost performer Michael Sheen also played on two prior occasions, most notably in Stephen Frears' adaptation of The Queen. Did he come across to you, as he did to me, as emimently believable playing both parts?
I speak from some experience, at least as to the former. I distinctly remember Frost's early 1970s syndicated show on United Statesian television, which our local channel 5 carried from 8:30 until the start of Bill Jorgensen's newscast, intro'd with the haunting intonation of "It's 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?"
Could a performer convey Frost's vapidness and Blair's Number Ten-ness with equal verisimitude?
Why am I asking you?!?
For what it's worth, I was equally impressed with Frank Langella's impression of Nixon, but it's not the same. I still mostly associate him with his 1979 portrayal of Dracula, so taking on the role of Nixon wasn't nearly as much of a reach for him.