{"id":65517,"date":"2015-11-24T11:02:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T17:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=65517"},"modified":"2025-01-13T18:34:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T23:34:31","slug":"bryan-cranston-relished-role-as-blacklisted-communist-screenwriter-dalton-trumbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/11\/24\/bryan-cranston-relished-role-as-blacklisted-communist-screenwriter-dalton-trumbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Cranston relished role as blacklisted Communist screenwriter Dalton Trumbo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TORONTO \u2013 Bryan Cranston loved playing Dalton Trumbo so much he didn\u2019t want to stop.<\/p>\n

Even in the midst of the tiring press cycle at September\u2019s Toronto International Film Festival, the Golden Globe winner needed only the slightest provocation to hunch his body, flatten his voice into a nasally sprawl, and dive into a first-rate impression of the famed Hollywood screenwriter.<\/p>\n

But given the film\u2019s occasionally solemn subject matter \u2013 Trumbo was jailed and blacklisted for his supposed Communist ties \u2013 Cranston was careful not to let his depiction lapse into all-out caricature.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tell my director Jay (Roach), I said: \u2018I need to go out on the limb… I\u2019ll keep going out on that limb until we hear it breaking, and then pull me back,\u2019\u201d Cranston said during the festival. \u201cYou have to go there to say: OK, that\u2019s too much.<\/p>\n

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Bring it back and try to find the sweet spot.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo yes, he was a very flamboyant man, with affectations and the cigarette holder and the way he gesticulated,\u201d added Cranston, cheerfully transforming into Trumbo in both voice and posture, \u201cand he would pontificate about many, many things and he loved to hear himself talk.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo he was not a man without tremendous ego, which makes (him) an interesting character to play. I loved playing him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trumbo was the furiously prolific screen scribe who became the highest-paid writer in Hollywood on the strength of \u201840s hits \u201cThirty Seconds Over Tokyo,\u201d \u201cOur Vines Have Tender Grapes\u201d and \u201cKitty Foyle,\u201d which merited his first Oscar nomination.<\/p>\n

He officially aligned himself with the Communist Party in 1943, and as that political alliance fell out of fashion, he became a target of the House Un-American Activities Committee.<\/p>\n

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With his round-frame glasses, slender moustache, dangling cigarettes and dancing voice, he became perhaps the most distinct and outspoken member of the so-called Hollywood 10, who were blacklisted from Hollywood for their supposedly dangerous views.<\/p>\n

After a year-long prison stint \u2013 served because he refused to testify to Congress \u2013 Trumbo began issuing scripts under a series of pseudonyms. He even won an Oscar for one of his anonymous creations, \u201cThe Brave One.\u201d (He would later write \u201cSpartacus,\u201d \u201cPapillon\u201d and \u201cExodus.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Though the story of a wildly creative man that is jailed, humiliated and driven to near-poverty over his political beliefs might sound harrowingly dour, \u201cTrumbo\u201d is sprightly paced. It features a cast that includes Louis C.K., Helen Mirren and John Goodman, who plays the strident Frank King, who employs Trumbo when others won\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a topic people think necessarily they\u2019re going to come running to, over the latest Marvel movie or something,\u201d conceded director Jay Roach.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut if they do, I don\u2019t think they\u2019ll be disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even with the impressive cast, it\u2019s Cranston\u2019s film.<\/p>\n

Over the course of the movie, Trumbo begins to wither under the pressure of supporting his family without the benefit of his name to sell scripts. He chain-smokes in the bathtub, pops methamphetamine tablets and churns out script after script, barking angrily at whichever family member has the gall to interrupt his routine.<\/p>\n

\u201cI pride myself on willingness to engage in conflict, in battling for getting your point across, or fighting for an element of a story that\u2019s important to me, said the 59-year-old actor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very passionate. I love to work. I love storytelling.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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