VIDEO : Geoffrey Rush Tried To Portray Albert Einstein's Lighter Side in 'Genius'

When Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush signed on to play Albert Einstein in the first season of the Nat Geo drama Genius, Rush knew he wanted to go beyond and show a different side of the famed figure. Rush told the Hollywood Reporter, "He was a man who wept, he was a man who laughed. He had a fantastic sense of humor, I've seen that in some of the newsreel footage where he could get journalists laughing at the drop of a hat.