Frank Langella was excellent in this. Played Russell as the moderate but bigoted Georgian elder statesman who can't accept that Jim Crow is politically unacceptable to post WW2 America.
I wish they could’ve made Mr. Langella smaller than Bryan Cranston. Richard Russell was shorter than LBJ’s 6’ 3 1/2”. It would’ve made “The Johnson Treatment” better in this film. Excellent performances all around though.