Julia Roberts, Sean Penn and Armie Hammer Cast in Watergate TV Drama Based on Slow Burn Podcast

Julia Roberts is ushering another podcast to the small display.

On Friday, NBCUniversal’s Content material Productions announced that the Oscar-winning actress, 52, will star opposite Sean Penn in a brand new collection based mostly on the 2017 podcast Slow Burn. Titled Gaslit, the present’s forged also consists of Armie Hammer and Joel Edgerton.

This marks Roberts’ second foray into tv after 2018’s Homecoming — also based mostly on a podcast — which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for greatest actress in a drama collection. Penn, 59, final appeared on TV screens with Hulu’s 2018 area drama The First.

Gaslit will deal with the 1970s Watergate scandal, with Roberts starring as whistleblower Martha Mitchell, wife of President Richard Nixon‘s lawyer basic, John Mitchell, performed by Penn.

“Now more than ever, fact is completely stranger than fiction,” government producer Sam Esmail, who additionally brought fans Homecoming and Mr. Robot, informed Variety. “The second I completed , I felt compelled to convey this story to tv, particularly after watching the cowardice on show in the course of the current impeachment hearings.”

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Esmail, 42, stated Roberts was his “first name” when assembling the forged.

“After her fascinating performance in Homecoming, I knew Julia was the one one that might deal with the complicated position of Martha Mitchell and lead our stellar forged in adapting this weird and controversial narrative,” he stated.

Sluggish Burn, a podcast created by Slate, has additionally dedicated seasons to analyzing the 1998 Bill Clinton impeachment hearings, in addition to the infamous feud between rappers Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur. The Watergate season has already been adapted into a docu-series, which airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on EPIX.

Other podcasts was TV exhibits in current memory embrace Jessica Biel‘s Limetown on Fb Watch and Connie Britton‘s Dirty John on Bravo.

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In July 2018, Roberts opened up concerning the attraction of doing TV work, telling friends at a Tv Critics Affiliation panel that it’s “good to convey one thing into individuals’s houses.”

“We’re like a delivery service. We’re delivering leisure right to the doorstep,” she joked at the time, adding that what drew her to the position was having more time to “unravel things for individuals.”

Final yr, it was introduced the star wouldn’t return for Homecoming‘s second season, which can proceed the mystery launched in the first set of episodes.

Singer Janelle Monáe will step in to play the lead in the upcoming sophomore season as a new character.

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