Monday, 23 January 2023

Bombshell (2019 Jay Roach)

See here. Just been on a tangent on Jean Harlow 1933 Blonde Bombshell - cut to, the future...

This isn't that. This is a bombshell of a true story about Roger Ailes, head of Fox News, and how courageous women stood up against his sexual harassment (the Margot Robbie character is fictionalised), and how he was sued and sacked. The writer is Charles Randolph. The year-long abuse Gretchen receives for badgering Trump is beyond belief.

Massive and complex cast. Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, John Lithgow, Allison Janney, Malcolm McDowell, Connie Britton (Mrs Ailes), Jennifer Morrison, Alice Eve, Bob Delaney, Mark Duplass, Richard Kind (Giuliani), Kate McKinnon (gay co-worker).

Kazu Hiro, who also did the prosthetic makeup on Gary Oldman for Darkest Hour, here transforms Lithgow, and Charlize into Megyn:

Good article on this in Elle

Photographed by Barry Aykroyd.

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