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now oscar buzz for his latest role. >> dalton trumbo. >> the highest-paid writer in hollywood. >> a registered communist. >> reporter: in "trumbo" screenwriter dalton trumbo, blacklisted and jailed in the 1950s forupposed c cmunist ties. >> this fight came to him. i don't think he thought of himself as a hero to fight the fight. he defended himself. i think anyone would did that. >> reporter: he continued writing screenplays, including "spartacus." >> i pray for a son who will be born free. >> reporter: won two academy awards for "the brave one" and "roman holiday." >> don't you have toto work? >> today's going did be a holiday. >> reporter: both written in secrecy. >> the famous hollywood blacklist that made it impossible,for accused artists to work was drawn up in this room in the waldorf astoria hotel where i met with cranston and costars helen mirren and >>>> can't believe we're in the room where the document t was signed. i'm feeling very haunted in here. >> reporter: in the film mirren plays trumbo's nemesis, hedda hopper, a powerful gossip columnist who could doom a career with the flic

his name was dalton trumbo. bryan cranston, of "breaking bad" fame, stars as trumbo, the iconic and eccentric screen writer who seemed to have it the communist party brought it all down in 1947. it was a time of the red scare in hollywood. and trumbo, along with nine of his fellow writers, would be sent to prison for so-called "un-american activities." now, black-listed by all the major studios, trumbo comes up with a plan to write scripts, with screen credit going to others, just to pay the bills. >> what we are about to do is the one thing everyone says we cannot do --we work. >> what is your position on the blacklist? >> i am on it. it is alive and well. >> i will write you a movie for $1200. >> and you don't want your name on it? >> you don't want my name on it. john: co-starring helen mirren as gossip columnist hedda hopper, "trumbo" is slick, stylish, but slow-moving. cranston, who along with mirren recently received a golden globe title role. unfortunately, the film, which chronicles a truly disgraceful ti

how much did you know about dalton trumbo before the film. >> going in, i knew a cursory amount. in doing the role i was afforded the chance to really dig in. >> reporter: i met cranston and co-stars helen mirren and diane lane in the very room where studio heads drew up the infamous hollywood blacklist which targeted so-called communist sympathizers, lane >> since prison you don't talk or ask. >> after being jailed, he became imperious. >> oh, go on. >> reporter: oscar winner mirren is hedda hopper who could tore a pen. >> whisper a movie you've written in secret. maybe i've even heard of it. >> hedda hopper, not exactly somebody you want to have a pedicure with. >> oh, i don't know. i think she would be quite fung to have a pedicure with actually. a lot of gossip. >> is it fair to call her a villain. >> i think it's fair to call her the villain of this piece. of course, in her eyes and in the eyes of the majority of america at the time she was the heroine. >> reporter: i met trumbo's real-life daughters consulted for the film. >> we knew that he could not write under his own na

his name was dalton trumbo. bryan cranston of "breaking bad" fame stars as trumbo, the iconic and eccentric screen writer who seemed to have it all until his association with the communist party brought it all down in 1947. it was a time of the red scare with nine of his fellow writers, would be sent to prison for so called un-american activities. blacklisted by all the major studios, "trumbo" comes up with a plan to write scripts with screen credit going to others just to pay the bills. >> what we are about to do is the one thing everyone says we can't. >> what is your position on the blacklist? >> it is alive and well and so is the black market. >> you don't want your name on it? >> know you don't want my name on it. >> who is it? >> kirk douglas. john co-starring helen mirran as : gossip columnist hedda hopper, "trumbo" is slick, stylish, but slow moving. cranston, who along with mirran, recently received a golden globe nomination for his performance is remarkable in the title role. unfortunately, the film, wh

dalton trumbo, who was one of the hollywood ten who were first picked out by the house un-american activities been a member of the communist party?" yip fronted him with money, and so forth. it was a horrible time. amy: how long couldn't yip work for? >> for about -- from 1951 to 1962. he came back to hollywood in 1962 when he and harold arlen did "gay paris," which is with judy garland. she asked them to come back. and it's a cult animated cartoon now, which you can get in your video. and i remember him putting on a show at the taber auditorium. "welcome back, yip," you know? and he -- in 1962. amy: but that means that "the wizard of oz" made it big during the time that he was blacklisted. that was -- and when you consider the social commentary that it was making, that's pretty profound. >> yeah, but i don't think hardly anyone knows the political symbolism underneath "the wizard of oz," because, again, it's a thing that happens in "finian's rainbow," even though as peter stone, a noted playwright on broadway, said, "it's the only socialist tract ever on broadway." all right? people don't he

. >> you star with bryan cranston he played dalton trumbo. he was here a week ago. had a little crush o o you. >> she is one sexy woman. and a deep, deep talent. but she doesn't act at all like -- she's not the queen. >> i'm certainly not the queen. >> must have been so much fun to work with him. >> fantastic. he's one of the great living american actors, i believe. i don't -- if youaw his lbj in new york on broadway, amazing performance which we're luckily going to be able to see on screen. >> that's coming on -- i did not know that. >> they filmed it so we'll be le to see it on the s seen which is fantastic. >> what's next for you? >> i don't know actually, quite honestly, i have a wonderful film coming out next year about drone warfare which isalled "eye in the sky" and it's a really, really intense very, very good film. >> and timely. >> yes, and timely, absolutely. well. thank you for joining us. >> "trumbo" is in theaters nationwide and when we come back, fall out boy performs >>> we have fall out boy here. they are fresh from winning a favorite artist alterna