NT Live 2023: Best of Enemies

David Harewood (Homeland) and Zachary Quinto (Star Trek) play feuding rivals William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal in this political thriller by James Graham, filmed live in London’s West End.

In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the next president, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr. (Harewood), and the unruly liberal Gore Vidal (Quinto). During a new nightly television format, they debate the moral landscape of a shattered nation. As beliefs are challenged and slurs slung, a new frontier in American politics is opening and television news is about to be transformed forever. Jeremy Herrin (All My Sons) directs.

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