People Magazine has debuted the first look at Bryan Cranston (three-time Emmy winner for “Breaking Bad”) reprising his Tony Award-winning role as President Lyndon B. Johnson in HBO Films’ All the Way. Check out the full pic in the gallery below!
Robert Schenkkan (Pulitzer Prize winner for “The Kentucky Cycle”; two-time Emmy nominee and Writers Guild Award winner for HBO’s “The Pacific”) has adapted his Tony Award-winning play of the same name, and it is directed by Jay Roach (Game Change, Trumbo).
“Physically and emotionally Bryan completely channels LBJ,” says director Jay Roach. “We just filmed him and Lady Bird in the Oval Office, after JFK’s assassination. LBJ has arrived as the ‘accidental President.’ He’s almost overwhelmed. In spiritual support, Lady Bird touches his cheek. We melted, like we went back in time and witnessed a private, heart-wrenching moment between these two great people.”
Joining Cranston in the cast of All the Way are Anthony Mackie (portraying Martin Luther King), Melissa Leo (Lady Bird Johnson), Bradley Whitford (Hubert Humphrey), Stephen Root (J. Edgar Hoover), Marque Richardson (Bob Moses), Aisha Hinds (Fanny Lou Hamer), Todd Weeks (Walter Jenkins), Mo McRae (Stokely Carmichael), Spencer Garrett (Walter Reuther) and Frank Langella (Sen. Richard Russell).
All the Way offers a behind-the-scenes look at President Johnson’s tumultuous first year in office as he takes the oath in the wake of President Kennedy’s assassination, navigates the escalation of the Vietnam War and balances opposing interests to launch his landmark civil rights bill and win election to his first full presidential term.
All the Way is produced for HBO by Amblin Television, Tale Told Productions and Moonshot Entertainment, with Steven Spielberg, Robert Schenkkan, Jay Roach, Bryan Cranston, Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey (“Extant,” “The Americans”) executive producing and James Degus (“Sneaky Pete”) co-executive producing.
In addition to the Tony Award, Schenkkan’s play “All the Way” received Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, Drama Desk, National Theater Critics and Edward M. Kennedy awards.
