The actor underplays Presley to noteworthy effect in Liza Johnson’s entertaining imagining of the legendary assembly between the president and the rock iconThe assembly between Richard M Nixon and Elvis Presley on 21 December 1970,is so legendary that the photograph that immortalized the moment is still the most requested image in the National Archives. It’s a wonder, then, or that it’s taken this long to imagine their summit on screen.
Writers Joey Sagal,Hanala Sagal and Cary Elwes take major artistic liberties to retell the story of that the encounter and the events main up to it in Elvis & Nixon, a breezy comedy nimbly directed by Liza Johnson (Hateship Loveship).
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Source: theguardian.com