Elvis & Nixon

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Michael Shannon as Elvis and Kevin Spacey as Nixon sit across from each other in the Oval Office, engaged in conversation, in a scene from the film Elvis and Nixon.

Elvis & Nixon

film by Johnson [2016]

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Tracy Letts
…John Finlator in the comedy Elvis & Nixon, about a 1970 meeting between U.S. Pres. Richard Nixon and musician Elvis Presley, and as a bloviating college dean in the adaptation of Philip Roth’s Indignation. That year he also began appearing in the comedy series Divorce. Film credits from 2017 included…
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…John Finlator in the comedy Elvis & Nixon, about a 1970 meeting between U.S. Pres. Richard Nixon and musician Elvis Presley, and as a bloviating college dean in the adaptation of Philip Roth’s Indignation. That year he also began appearing in the comedy series Divorce. Film credits from 2017 included…
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Michael Shannon
Playing Elvis, Estragon, and George Jones
…surprisingly convincing Elvis Presley in Elvis & Nixon, a film that imagines what went on in “the King’s” fabled meeting with U.S. Pres. Richard Nixon (Kevin Spacey) in 1970. Critics praised Shannon and Spacey for not reducing Presley and Nixon to caricatures. Variety wrote, “Both actors manage to delve past
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…surprisingly convincing Elvis Presley in Elvis & Nixon, a film that imagines what went on in “the King’s” fabled meeting with U.S. Pres. Richard Nixon (Kevin Spacey) in 1970. Critics praised Shannon and Spacey for not reducing Presley and Nixon to caricatures. Variety wrote, “Both actors manage to delve past
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Kevin Spacey
Later credits and House of Cards
Richard Nixon in Elvis & Nixon, about a 1970 encounter between the president and musician Elvis Presley (Michael Shannon). In the family comedy Nine Lives (2016), his character, a successful businessman, is turned into a cat. Spacey’s film credits from 2017 included the action comedy Baby Driver, in…
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Richard Nixon in Elvis & Nixon, about a 1970 encounter between the president and musician Elvis Presley (Michael Shannon). In the family comedy Nine Lives (2016), his character, a successful businessman, is turned into a cat. Spacey’s film credits from 2017 included the action comedy Baby Driver, in…
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