We’re in the midst of an LBJ renaissance. Over the past four years, four different actors have portrayed Lyndon Baines Johnson in big, showy roles in major Hollywood movies, and on November 3, with the release of director Rob Reiner’s LBJ, Woody Harrelson increased that number to five. We met with Harrelson and Reiner in Austin to talk about the process of recreating the larger-than-life thirty-sixth president for the screen.
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