John Lithgow

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4.5 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

When you hear the name John Lithgow, you may call to mind a number of different movies, TV series or plays, including “The Changing Room,” “Terms of Endearment,” and “Third Rock from the Sun.” In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist talks to the Emmy and Tony award-winning actor about that prolific career on both stage and screen, and his latest transformation into former “Fox News” chief Roger Ailes for the highly-anticipated new movie “Bombshell.”

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.
0:05.7	My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.
0:08.5	I think I got another great one for you this week in Tony and Emmy winner John Liff Goh.
0:13.9	One of the most respected actors anywhere in the world.
0:17.7	A guy who's been doing this for about 40 years in Hollywood, he started off as a stage actor
0:22.8	in New York City, won a Tony award in the first production he ever was in on Broadway
0:28.4	at 27 years old and his charmed professional life went on from there.
0:33.4	He in the 1980s of course did a bunch of movies for which he was nominated for Academy Awards.
0:39.2	The world according to Garpe was one of them terms of endearment of course and who could
0:43.8	forget Footloose, John Liff Goh and Footloose.
0:47.1	Then comes TV in the 1990s.
0:49.1	You'll hear him talk about how he was kind of a snob about TV and somebody said we want
0:52.9	you to be in a sitcom.
0:54.4	He said no way.
0:55.4	I'm a very serious theater actor.
0:57.8	He was talked into it and that was the show on NBC, Third Rock from the Sun in which he
1:02.6	starred one three Emmy awards over six seasons for that show.
1:06.6	He's done it all.
1:07.8	His latest performance is in the movie BOMM Shell which you've probably heard about.
1:11.5	A lot of people talking about it's about Fox News and particularly about its founder Roger
1:16.9	Ails who obviously died a couple of years ago but before that was the subject of a series
1:23.5	of accusations of sexual harassment and sexual assault at Fox News.
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