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Joining him in a highly paranoid era of America's history are Diane Lane as Trumbo's wife Cleo, Elle Fanning as his daughter Nikola, John Goodman as film producer Frank King, Helen Mirren as gossip columnist Hedda Hopper, Dean O'Gorman as Kirk Douglas, and Louis CK apparently as the «40s equivalent of Louis CK, among others. (film.avclub.com)
These new images give a closer look at Cranston as Trumbo, as well as co-stars Helen Mirren as gossip columnist Hedda Hopper and Diane Lane as his wife Cleo. (collider.com)
But as U.S. Congressman J. Parnell Thomas (James DuMont) and the House Un-American Activities Committee fire up their anti-communist witch hunt in Washington, with the staunch support of gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (Helen Mirren), Trumbo and his friends are called on to admit their Communist Party connections and out all the other radicals and subversives they've allowed under their roofs. (film.avclub.com)