The legendary comedian was left red-faced after an attempt to humour McGuinness backfired while they were spending the night in adjoining rooms at London s Soho Hotel.
Sacha Baron Cohen played 60s activist Abbie Hoffman in Aaron Sorkin s
The Trial of the Chicago 7.
Your association with Abbie Hoffman goes back decades …
When I was 20, I was staying at the YMCA in downtown Atlanta researching a thesis on Jewish involvement in the civil rights movement of the 60s. Abbie Hoffman was one of a bunch of Jewish radicals who went down South to support voter registration for people of color. So I knew about him from the age of 20. Then, 13 years ago, I heard that Spielberg was making a movie about the Chicago Seven and, with characteristic chutzpah, I called him up and asked if I could audition. He was concerned that I wouldn t be able to do the accent because all he d seen me do was the first
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The young German actress more than holds her own with the veteran actor in Paul Greengrass Western, opening Dec. 25.
It was the summer of 2019 in the lobby of London s Soho Hotel. Helena Zengel, a then-11-year-old German actress with a still-shaky command of English, was meeting British director Paul Greengrass, who was looking to cast the second lead, alongside Tom Hanks, in his new Western
News of the World, which Universal is set to open Dec. 25. Zengel had to act out a scene where Hanks Captain Kidd character, a Civil War veteran, rescues Johanna, who had been raised by the Native American Kiowa tribe that had kidnapped her and killed her family. Helena s mother, Anna, stood in for Hanks.