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National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies

9.0 135 mins Drama   History   Comedy   2023
National Theatre  
Director(s): Jeremy Herrin

In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the next president, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and the unruly liberal Gore Vidal. During a new nightly television format, they debate the moral landscape of a shattered nation.

Casts of National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies

Zachary Quinto

as Gore Vidal

David Harewood

as William F. Buckley, Jr.

Emilio Doorgasingh

as William Sheehan / Chet Huntley / Howard Austen

Clare Foster

as Patricia Buckley

Tom Godwin

as Frank Meyer / Andy Warhol / Bobby Kennedy / More...

John Hodgkinson

as Howard K Smith / Mayor Daley

Syrus Lowe

as James Baldwin / George / Martin Luther King, Jr.

Kevin McMonagle

as Elmer Lower / Walter Kronkite

Sam Otto

as Tariq Ali / Matt

Deborah Alli

as Aretha Franklin / Patty the Party Guest / Brooke Gladstone

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