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Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly stands with arms crossed beside John Lithgow as Roger Ailes, who uses a walker, in a street scene from the film Bombshell.

Bombshell

film by Roach [2019]

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Nicole Kidman
Later work
…that year Kidman starred in Bombshell, portraying Gretchen Carlson, a former host on Fox News who accused the channel’s president, Roger Ailes, of sexual harassment.
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…that year Kidman starred in Bombshell, portraying Gretchen Carlson, a former host on Fox News who accused the channel’s president, Roger Ailes, of sexual harassment.
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John Lithgow
Other credits, including The Crown
…the Stephen King novel, and Bombshell, in which he played media executive Roger Ailes, who resigned from the Fox News Channel amid allegations of sexual misconduct. Lithgow also had roles in The Tomorrow Man and Late Night (both 2019). He later appeared in the first season (2020) of the TV…
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…the Stephen King novel, and Bombshell, in which he played media executive Roger Ailes, who resigned from the Fox News Channel amid allegations of sexual misconduct. Lithgow also had roles in The Tomorrow Man and Late Night (both 2019). He later appeared in the first season (2020) of the TV…
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Kate McKinnon
Career
…her usual roles in 2019’s Bombshell, a drama based on the true story of female employees attempting to expose CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassment at Fox News. In 2023 McKinnon made a splash in director Greta Gerwig’s fantasy comedy blockbuster Barbie as the enigmatic and endearing Weird Barbie, a…
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…her usual roles in 2019’s Bombshell, a drama based on the true story of female employees attempting to expose CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassment at Fox News. In 2023 McKinnon made a splash in director Greta Gerwig’s fantasy comedy blockbuster Barbie as the enigmatic and endearing Weird Barbie, a…
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Margot Robbie
From ice-skating as Tonya Harding to waltzing as Harley Quinn
…aspiring Fox News star in Bombshell (2019), about the revelations of sexual harassment at the conservative news outlet, Robbie earned a second Oscar nod. She then reprised her role as Harley Quinn, now free of the Joker, in Birds of Prey (2020) and later in The Suicide Squad (2021). Both…
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…aspiring Fox News star in Bombshell (2019), about the revelations of sexual harassment at the conservative news outlet, Robbie earned a second Oscar nod. She then reprised her role as Harley Quinn, now free of the Joker, in Birds of Prey (2020) and later in The Suicide Squad (2021). Both…
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Charlize Theron
…other credits from 2019 included Bombshell, a docudrama about the sexual harassment scandal that led Roger Ailes to resign as president of the Fox News Channel. For her performance as Megyn Kelly in that film, Theron received her third Oscar nomination. She then appeared in the action movies The Old…
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…other credits from 2019 included Bombshell, a docudrama about the sexual harassment scandal that led Roger Ailes to resign as president of the Fox News Channel. For her performance as Megyn Kelly in that film, Theron received her third Oscar nomination. She then appeared in the action movies The Old…
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