Ramin Setoodeh New York Bureau ChiefRussell Crowe asked Jared Kushner for advice on playing the former head of Fox News Roger Ailes in the Showtime limited series “The Loudest Voice.”In an interview with Variety‘s Actors on Actors issue, Crowe revealed to Nicole Kidman that he approached Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior advisor, at Hugh Jackman’s 50th birthday party in 2018 in New York.
Crowe thought that Kushner would be able to tell him what Ailes — who also acted as an advisor on Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign — was like.Crowe plays Ailes in the Showtime series based on Gabriel Sherman’s book “The Loudest Voice in the Room,” which was published in 2014, and subsequent articles from New York magazine.
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