The Loudest Voice is so focused on the who, what, when, and where that it neglects to dig sufficiently into the why and how. chaneyj writes
Photo: JoJo Whilden/Showtime The loudest voice in the Showtime series The Loudest Voice belongs, of course, to Roger Ailes, the late, former chairman and CEO of Fox News. As played by Russell Crowe in this drama based on Gabriel Sherman’s book The Loudest Voice in the Room, as well as the reporting Sherman did here at New York magazine, Ailes is an openly conservative newsman prone to blustery blowups and advocating for programming defined more by spectacle than facts.
The Loudest Voice uses repetition to illustrate that Ailes’s moral compass has gone totally kablooey by the late aughts. “This is going to be a day that defines us as a country and as a people, and we just all need to be at our very best,” he says during a news meeting on September 11, 2001, shortly after the towers have fallen and the Pentagon has been hit. It sounds noble.
As good as Crowe is, he does have to engage in another kind of battle, one between himself and the prosthetics applied to his face to make it appear more jowly. This is an issue for other actors, too, notably Sienna Miller, who plays Ailes’s wife, Beth, and has been given a more prominent nose and heavier cheeks that, honestly, don’t reflect what Beth Ailes actually looks like. Miller gives a very solid, grounded performance.
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