Trivia / Frost/Nixon

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• Dueling-Stars Movie: Frank Langella vs Michael Sheen.
• Enforced Method Acting: To keep up the persona, all the other cast members called Frank Langella "Mr President" and he chose to refrain from his usual onset activities such as playing cards with cast and crew. He later commented that "None of them got to meet the real Frank Langella on set".
• Fake American: English Toby Jones as Swifty Lazar.
• What Might Have Been:
  • The studio wanted Warren Beatty to play Nixon, but Ron Howard would only agree to direct if Langella reprised his stage role.
  • George Clooney, Sam Mendes and Martin Scorsese were among the other directors considered for the film.

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