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- Michael Fassbender portrays Joseph Kennedy Sr. in the upcoming series Kennedy.
- The show is based on Fredrik Logevall’s book, exploring the Kennedy family’s rise to prominence.
- Season 1 will focus on Joe Sr.’s journey alongside his wife and children.
- A diverse cast has been added, including notable figures like Georgina Bitmead and Miley Locke.
Whenever Michael Fassbender has been tapped to lend his talents to a historical drama, the results have typically been stellar. His first Oscar nomination came in 2014 for his supporting role as notorious slave owner Edwin Epps in Steve McQueen‘s Best Picture-winning 12 Years a Slave. Fast-forward to 2016, and he’d again get a nod for a golden statuette, this time in a leading role for playing Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in, well, <em>Steve Jobs</em>, directed by Danny Boyle and penned by Aaron Sorkin. Now, he’s about to take on another legendary figure who stood at the top of one of America’s most powerful families.
Netflix has shared the first behind-the-scenes look at Fassbender as Joseph Kennedy Sr. in the new decades-spanning historical series Kennedy. Based on Fredrik Logevall’s book, JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956, the show will dig deep into what made the Kennedy clan the equivalent of the royal family in America, from the loves to the rivalries and the many tragedies that befell them. It’s been described as a sort of U.S. counterpart to The Crown, with Season 1 slated to follow Joe Sr.’s ascent, along with his wife Rose Kennedy and their nine children. Among the many siblings, second son Jack, in particular, seeks to break out from the shadow of his golden boy older brother and carve his own path.
In addition to the photo, the cast received a major expansion, with 13 new names added in and around the Kennedy family. Georgina Bitmead will play Eunice Kennedy, alongside Miley Locke as younger Kick Kennedy, Tipper Seifert-Cleveland as younger Rosemary Kennedy, Hera Hilmar as Inga Arvad, Wyatt Russell as Charles Lindbergh, Patrick Fischler as Arthur Krock, Caitlin FitzGerald as Clare Boothe Luce, Louis Landau as Billy Cavendish, Robin Soans as Neville Chamberlain, Denis O’Hare as Raymond Furness, Albert Welling as Winston Churchill, Toby Huss as Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Eddie Marsan as J. Edgar Hoover. They all join a stacked cast led by Fassbender as the Kennedy patriarch, Laura Donnelly as Rose Kennedy, Nick Robinson as Joe Kennedy Jr., and newcomer Joshuah Melnick as Jack Kennedy, with previously announced recurring roles by Lydia Peckham, Saura Lightfoot-Leon, Ben Miles, Cole Doman, and Imogen Poots.
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The saga of the Kennedy family will be an ambitious undertaking for Netflix. The series features seasoned creatives including showrunner and executive producer Sam Shaw , known for creating Manhattan , alongside director Thomas Vinterberg . Chernin Entertainment is backing this project with executive producers such as Peter Chernin , Jenno Topping , and Kaitlin Dahil . They are joined by Eric Roth , Fredrik Logevall , Lila Byock , Anya Epstein , Dustin Thomason , and Anna O’Malley . For Fassbender, this marks his second prominent television role of late since he is currently awaiting Season 2 of his spy thriller series The Agency .
No release date has been announced for Kennedy . Stay tuned here at Collider for more updates on this new historical series.
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