Bill Pullman joins Rob Reiner’s LBJ biopic

Actor BILL PULLMAN has been cast alongside WOODY HARRELSON in director ROB REINER’s upcoming biopic of former U.S. President LYNDON B. JOHNSON.
The Independence Day star will portray Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough opposite Harrelson as Johnson in LBJ, which will chronicle the drama surrounding John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 when then-Vice President Johnson was thrust into the hot seat and became the 36th President of the United States, reports Deadline.com.
Yarborough was travelling in the Dallas motorcade, riding in the same car as Johnson, when Kennedy was shot and killed.
Richard Jenkins will play Senator Richard Russell.
Pullman, 61, is no stranger to political parts onscreen – he is due to reprise his role as fictional President Whitmore in the long-awaited Independence Day sequel, Resurgence, while he also portrayed President Dale Gilchrist in shortlived U.S. TV series 1600 Penn in 2012.