With the help of a bald cap, belly pad and prosthetic jowls, Oscar winner Russell Crowe transformed into the late Fox News founder Roger Ailes at the center of Showtime's celebrated series The Loudest Voice.
During a seven-episode run in spring 2019, the project, based on Gabriel Sherman's 2014 book, dramatized the media titan's rise and fall, with Ailes ultimately brought down amid a flurry of sexual misconduct allegations.
From his home in Australia, Crowe reflects on his initial resistance, his 68 times in the makeup chair and why he wasn't willing to play Ailes as simply a monster.
Let's start easy: How are you? It turns out I've been self-isolating on and off for the past 30 years, and I'm pretty good at it.
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