Selma (2015) and All the Way (2016) - scene comparisons.
Bryan Cranston’s HBO Recreation of All the Way Arrives on DVD and Blu-Ray Today. Sep 06, 2016. The rest of the world gets to see Bryan Cranston's 2014 Tony Award-winning performance as President Lyndon Baines Johnson on September 6 when the HBO adaptation of Robert Schenkkan's Tony winner for Best Play, All the Way, is released on DVD and Blu-Ray by HBO Home Entertainment.Cranston has to deal with two particular difficulties in playing LBJ, one apparently banal, the other more profound. The banal one is physical. Oddly enough, Johnson was the same height as Lincoln.The Great Society Speech Introduction. Four years later, and he would've been run off campus. But this was May of 1964, and the graduating class of the University of Michigan listened attentively as President Lyndon Baines Johnson, riding a wave of popularity helped along by sympathy for the recently assassinated JFK, gave the invited commencement address.
All The Way Review: Bryan Cranston as LBJ. Breaking Bad Meets Broadway. New York Theater November 19, 2013. Spider-Man Closing. Sutton Foster and Monty Python Returning? Aladdin Peek. Week in New York Theater. New York Theater November 18, 2013. Bryan Cranston in Broadway Poster for All The Way, about LBJ. New York Theater October 7, 2013. From Breaking Bad To Broadway. Big Fish. Off-Off.Cranston might be better at conveying LBJ’s Mr. Magoo squinty-face, and more precise in replicating the painful sincerity of the president’s public speaking, but the Midland-born Harrelson is.
It’s easy to see how Bryan Cranston won a Tony award for his portrayal of Lyndon Baines Johnson in “All the Way” on Broadway. Chances are he’ll also win an Emmy for the new HBO adaptation.
