Best Of: John Lithgow / Sondheim’s tumultuous life
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Today, John Lithgow, veteran of hundreds of performances on stage, screen, and television, to play Winston Churchill in the series The Crown, he had an idea to help him nail the statesman's gravelly voice. He spooned pieces of apple with a melon baller and stuck them in the back of his cheeks for his first reading with the cast. Stuck them in the back. and spoke some of my lines and I believe I read one of the things. And it was sensational, but my mouth immediately filled up with apple cider.
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