Woody Harrelson & Rob Reiner: The Restoration of LBJ

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🗓️ 3 November 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In their new movie, LBJ, actor Woody Harrelson and director Rob Reiner focus on the period of time immediately after the assassination of President Kennedy.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the priest.
0:03.7	The priest.
0:05.0	The priest.
0:06.7	Think about this.
0:10.6	A political party in power that's fracturing in two.
0:14.2	A president facing accusations of betraying the voters who put him in power.
0:18.4	A White House right with ego.
0:20.3	Nachismo and lots of colorful language.
0:23.0	Any of that sound familiar?
0:24.0	Well, I'm actually not talking about right now.
0:26.5	I'm talking about the 60s, the new film, LBJ.
0:29.8	Chronicles, Lyndon Johnson's unexpected political ascension through his days in the Senate
0:35.0	to becoming Kennedy's vice president and the assassination that put him in the Oval Office
0:39.4	and its transformation from a traditional Southern Democrat to a champion of the Civil Rights
0:44.4	Act.
0:45.4	Joining me now, actor, producer, activist, and director of this film and many others, Rob
0:49.4	Reiner, and the man who transformed in LBJ there, actor Woody Harrelson.
0:54.0	Gentlemen, welcome to your vote.
0:55.5	Thanks for having us.
0:56.5	Thanks.
0:57.5	Woody.
0:58.5	That was, you really, you really looked like him.
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