![]() ![]() ![]() He is baffled by the idea of “safe space meets” after he is invited to one by the Jewish student organization Hillel and the Black Students Assn. That’s certainly how the protesting students in the play feel, but Nichols dismisses them as “babies” who can “never know offense, never be challenged.” They wouldn’t last a day in the 1960s or ’70s, he scoffs. As student protests intensify, Nichols presses forward, claiming his intention is to give Carver and his repugnant ideas a thorough dressing down in a debate. Chimes ring mournfully in the breeze, and small white blossoms from a tree twist and twirl their way to a soft landing in the nearby pool.Ĭranston is telling me why he chose to step away from an offer to direct a show at L.A.’s Geffen Playhouse and how that decision led him to take the role of Charles Nichols in the theater’s West Coast premiere of “Power of Sail,” written by Paul Grellong and directed by Weyni Mengesha, running through March 20.Īs Nichols, Cranston plays an aging, highly respected Harvard professor who faces intense backlash for inviting a white nationalist and Holocaust denier named Carver to speak at his annual symposium. He sits beside an unlighted fire pit in his backyard on a recent windy morning. The words tumble with intensity out of actor Bryan Cranston’s mouth. “I’m 65 years old now, and I need to learn, I need to change.” ![]()
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