By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Actor Dan Stevens has joined Hollywood stars Julia Roberts and Sean Penn in Watergate sequence “Gaslit”, an upcoming anthology primarily based on award-winning podcast “Slow Burn”. According to Variety, arrange at Starz, the primary season of the Robbie Pickering-created present will give attention to the Watergate scandal that introduced down the presidency of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Stevens, who has beforehand starred in tv hits corresponding to “Downton Abbey” and “Legion”, will play former White House counsel John Dean changing actor Armie Hammer, who fell off the present within the wake of sexual assault allegations.
“The show focuses on the untold stories and forgotten characters of the scandal – from Nixon’s bumbling, opportunistic subordinates, to the deranged zealots aiding and abetting their crimes, to the tragic whistleblowers who would eventually bring the whole rotten enterprise crashing down,” the plotline reads.
Roberts will star as Martha Mitchell, a celeb Arkansan socialite and spouse to Nixon’s loyal Attorney General, John Mitchell (Penn). “Captain Fantastic” director Matt Ross will helm the sequence, which shall be produced by UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, for Starz.