#Geoffrey rush albert einstein movie#
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Pablo Picasso Set as 'Genius' Season 2 Subject for Nat Geo And so in 10 episodes, we had the time to go back to the 1880’s when he was a child, back to when he was five and picks up a compass, he’s already a great and curious mind and he’s going, Why does the needle always point to the north? What makes that happen? We got to explore a very big developmental arc, hopefully trying to humanize that face that we sort of know from t-shirts or Apple billboards or something but that almost nobody apart from Walter Isaacson, who had written the book, knew. Why would this guy, as a physicist of all things, why would he become one of the greatest celebrities before the word celebrity had been invented? He’s a physicist but he’s a household name.

#Geoffrey rush albert einstein movie#

Having done Mars, it’s just part of his bag to go, ‘Einstein is one of those great historical, classical figures - how exciting to have this opportunity.’ They were looking at one point originally of doing it as a two-hour television movie and then they realized, Ron just kept asking all those key questions which were invariable for me as an actor when I got onboard. I think he was very excited that he got 10 hours of television to look at. Because it’s really settled nicely into his ongoing body of work. I only heard about it in June, I think Ron had only come onboard in March and saw maybe the first episode and the synopsis for the other nine and went, “Let’s do it!” in a kind of enigmatic Ron Howard way. Ron Howard and Brian from Imagine really kind of moved it along. There was phenomenal momentum because it was one of Nat Geo’s first scripted dramas so there was a lot of energy around it and a lot of expectation around it at the network. What was it like working with director Ron Howard? Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Rush discussed working with director and exec producer Ron Howard, the biggest misconception about Einstein and showing his lighter side. The role marked his largest TV endeavor since 1996, in which he starred in Mercury, an Australian miniseries about a newspaper that was released the same year as his Oscar-winning turn in Shine.

#Geoffrey rush albert einstein series#

Rush clearly succeeded, seeing as he earned an Emmy nomination for best actor in a limited series or movie. Rather than trying to breathe life into some documentary portrayal of him, you have to find a kind of ownership.” He had a fantastic sense of humor, I’ve seen that in some of the newsreel footage where he could get journalists laughing at the drop of a hat. “He was a man who wept, he was a man who laughed.