Russell Crowe got insight from Jared Kushner on how to play Fox’s Roger Ailes in The Loudest Voice 

He played the role of former Fox News Chairman and CEO, Roger Ailes, in the highly acclaimed mini-series, The Loudest Voice. 

And Russell Crowe has now revealed that he got some on how to play the main role from non other than the Senior Advisor to the President of the United States, Jared Kushner. 

While speaking with Nicole Kidman in an hour long, Actor on Actor YouTube series for Variety, the 56-year-old star said they got talking at Hugh Jackman’s 50th birthday party in 2018. 

‘Ivanka [Trump] came in so that gave me the opportunity to have a very long conversation with Ivanka’s husband,’ he began when asked by Nicole asked him how he did his research for the role.   

‘He had a very direct relationship with Roger over their presidential campaign. Phone calls every Sunday.’ 

He continued: ‘So it gave me that contemporary insight that the book could not give me.’ 

And while Nicole was at the party herself she said she had no idea the pair had met during the birthday party – to which Russell laughed and replied: ‘Well, nobody else was talking to him.’ 

And while The  Loudest Voice starred Russell, Sienna Miller and Naomi Watts among others, Nicole herself was in the film adaptation, Bombshell, with Charlize Theron  and Margot Robbie.  

The pair also spoke about Nicole’s work in Big Little Lies and what it was like working with Meryl Streep. 

‘I’ve had maybe two conversations with her ever, but I think she’s so special. Tell me about working with Meryl Streep,’ the New Zealand born star said. 

‘She’s very similar to how we work, in the sense that she melts into it. Every take is different. She’s like quicksilver. You would love her. And having just worked with her back-to-back.’ 

Nicole continued:  ‘I did Big Little Lies where she’s in the cardigan, and she’s my pious mother-in-law. And then we’ve just done a big musical together, which was the complete opposite of ‘Big Little Lies,’ where we are singing and dancing and being absolutely ridiculous.’ 

Nicole also dished on how she approached her character of Celeste Wright – a woman stuck in a very physically abusive relationship.  

‘Ultimately [the relationship between Celeste and Perry] is based in this love. And the sexuality between them, which is at times good, and loving, and tender. And then things go awry, and it starts to snowball out of control,’ she explained. 

‘That was really important to me, because so much of the relationships in terms of domestic abuse, you don’t see a lot of the good times. It was about focusing on, “What are the good times? Because that’s what’s keeping me here.”‘

She ended with: ‘To have the chance to play that with all its complication, I was amazed that they let me do it that way. Because a lot of times it gets glossed over.’