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We're going to do things a bit differently on this episode of the Newsagents USA.

There has been so much American news, so much Trump news wading into our daily show that today we're going to take

stock with a bit of a Hollywood legend. It's the actor Billy Crudeup. You will have seen him in the

morning show as the hyper-energetic, hyper-magnetic, arch-manipulator, severe depressive,

Corey Ellison. You may have caught him as the actor haunted by his best friend's

success alongside George Clooney in the recently released Jay Kelly. Right now, you can catch him here

on the London stage in a Western, literally the play of the award-winning Gary Cooper, Grace

Kelly movie High Noon. At the time that was released, it was intensely

controversial as a powerful allegory of McCarthyism, the blacklisting of Hollywood. What is it

trying to tell us now? The Newsagents USA with Emily Maitliss and John Sopold. Billy, welcome.

Lovely to have you here.

I'm so happy to be here. Thank you for having me.

We came, we saw, we very much enjoyed the play on Monday night.

Thank you.

But for those who don't know it and for maybe our lot of younger audience who won't maybe know the film at all.

Sure.

Just talk us through. Tell us the story.

Well, the American Western is a genre of cinema that has roots way back to the invention of cinema. And I think

screenwriters were most captivated by it because of the disorder and chaos. There's just tons of room for drama

in a chaotic environment. And so using the close proximity to this period of time, which was maybe,

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