HBO's 'The White House Plumbers' Starring Woody Harrelson is Now Casting

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• Interviews: Woody Harrelson and Juston Theroux give the lowdown on White House Plumbers
• The real G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt
• Meet the White House Plumbers cast: who's who in the series
• Domhnall Gleeson as John Dean
• George Santos movie in development at HBO from the makers of ‘Veep’ and ‘Succession’
• Disney’s Live-Action Hercules Movie: Cast, Production and Everything You Need to Know
• In ‘Mr. Bates vs The Post Office,’ Toby Jones is the quiet, stubborn leader of a resistance

Sons of Anarchy actor Kim Coates is Frank Sturgis, another one of the five burglars involved in Watergate. In the '50s, Sturgis moved to Cuba and worked for Fidel Castro and as a CIA informant, and opened a training camp where he taught Che Guevarra guerilla warfare, then eventually defected and joined the anti-Castro opposition. He was also involved in a number of conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, including some he perpetuated himself. For his role in Watergate, he spent 14 months in prison.

Interviews: Woody Harrelson and Juston Theroux give the lowdown on White House Plumbers

The White House Plumbers is set to plunge onto HBO in March 2023. This five-part limited series imagines the behind-the-scenes story of how Nixon’s political saboteurs, E. Gordon Liddy (Justin Theroux), accidentally toppled the presidency they were zealously trying to protect… and their families along with it.

The real G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt

Hunt’s character has a tragic element that Harrelson doesn’t get to the bottom of, and it's a missed opportunity. SAG-AFTRA & Non-Union Men, all ethnicities, age 20s-70s, to portray Inmates for prison scenes for MULITPLE DAYS! This project takes place during the early 1970s requires 2 Covid Tests and a Costume Fitting to work.

Meet the White House Plumbers cast: who's who in the series

She was killed in December 1972, when United Airlines Flight 553 crashed en route from Washington to Omaha. Though it was ruled an accident, her presence on the flight (and the fact that she had $10,000 in cash on her) led to various Watergate-related conspiracy theories, including that the crash was planned by the CIA. Thanks to the classic that is All the President's Men, we're more than familiar with the sensational true story of how Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovered Watergate.

Domhnall Gleeson as John Dean

New HBO show 'White House Plumbers' revisits the Watergate scandal - NPR

New HBO show 'White House Plumbers' revisits the Watergate scandal.

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George Santos movie in development at HBO from the makers of ‘Veep’ and ‘Succession’

Shea Whigham previously played this larger-than-life figure in Starz’s Watergate and Martha Mitchell series “Gaslit” with even more feverish intensity, at one point stealing the show from Julia Roberts by battling a rat in prison. But Theroux’s self-amusement with the character is infectious enough; it's in the way his Liddy speaks regally as if he were already the star of a mini-series in his head. Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux will star as E. Along with appearing in the show, Harrelson and Theroux will executive produce the show. Writers and executive producers, Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck, created the series and will executive price alongside Veep showrunner David Mandel. Frank Rich, executive producer of Veep and Succession will also executive produce.

Liddy is a bit of an eccentric, with Politico calling him "Watergate's most colorful character," which is not an empty distinction. Viewers of the show will see early on how Justin Theroux brings those eccentricities to life. E. Howard Hunt was a former CIA agent who was one of the key players in the Watergate scandal. In the series, he is an ardent defender of President Nixon, believing that leaks like the Pentagon Papers are helping to destroy the nation that he worked to defend. However, his spycraft game is exactly as strong as he thinks it is.

Gordon Liddy, masterminded the burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at Watergate. When they were arrested, a vast network of cover-ups and payoffs from Nixon's top brass followed in order to buy their silence—which obviously backfired. Hunt spent 33 months in prison for burglary, wiretapping, and conspiracy.

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Judy Greer Dishes on 'White House Plumbers'.

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Actors Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux will star in the TV series. Judy Greer as Fran Liddy Judy plays Fran, Liddy’s unflappable wife who has misplaced faith in her husband’s intelligence and abilities. Judy starred in Two and a Half Men, 13 Going On 30, Ant-Man, and Jurassic World. She’s also due to appear in The First Lady, coming out this year, which tells the story of the presidents’ wives. In the UK, White House Plumbers starts on Tuesday May 30 at 9pm on Sky Atlantic.

Gordon Liddy (Justin Theroux), the real-life blinkered zealots who, er, masterminded the break-in and took the brunt of the fall when everything went south. It’s a combination buddy comedy/buddy tragedy about a pair of true believers who keep charging ahead through blind loyalty and a desperate need to grind axes, even as the walls close in. We’ve seen the Watergate story through the eyes of the reporters who broke it (1976’s “All the President’s Men”). We’ve seen it through the eyes of White House counsel John Dean (the 1979 miniseries “Blind Ambition”). We’ve even seen it through the eyes of two teenage girls (the underappreciated 1999 comedy “Dick”).

The ultimate political scandal has been an ever-flowing fount of pop culture practically since the moment resigned president Richard Nixon flashed double peace signs and boarded his helicopter out of Washington. The dialogue is rich throughout White House Plumbers, and so are the performances and characters. Harrelson is wonderful — exploding like Ralph Kramden one minute, simmering like Macbeth the next — and the supporting cast is a very deep bench, serving up unexpected treasures every episode. And Lena Headey from Game of Thrones as Hunt's wife, Dorothy! And Gary Cole as FBI executive Mark Felt – who, though he's not identified as such here, in real life was the infamous Deep Throat of All the President's Men.

Fran Liddy is the ever supporting wife of Gordon Liddy, in the show played by Judy Greer. Greer is a fan-favorite actress, known for roles in Archer, 13 Going on 30, Arrested Development and the new Halloween movies. More recently she starred in TV shows Reboot, The First Lady and The Thing About Pam. Woody Harrelson is an Oscar and Emmy-nominated actor best known for his roles in True Detective, Cheers, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, The Hunger Games, Zombieland and White Men Can't Jump. Most recently he starred in the sports comedy Champions and was part of the cast of the Best Picture-nominated movie Triangle of Sadness. A five-part series that tells the true story of how Nixon's own political saboteurs and Watergate masterminds, E.

"White House Plumbers" is better before it gets to Watergate, with the first half depicting how Liddy and Hunt were bombastic but somehow good at their jobs, which helped them lead Nixon's corrupt Committee for the Re-election of the President. (The title comes from how they were known for "fixing leaks.") The series slightly elevates its comedy here. Harrelson and Theroux ham up liberally recounted events that have some shred of truth, and flourish in a passage about investigating the therapist of Daniel Ellsberg (who famously released the Pentagon Papers). We watch Liddy and Hunt, in bafflingly fake wigs, do dumb things like pose in front of the camera used during a break-in (only made worse when Hunt doesn’t take the film out before it reaches the authorities later on). It’s Coen brothers-lite with the bittersweetness of history and a looming sense of how ill-conceived each move is. Their patriotism isn’t just inflating their hubris; it will get them in serious trouble.

I'm totally on top of everything good coming up too. White House Plumbers is on HBO and Sky Atlantic and focuses on the real-life burglary of the Democratic National Committee HQ in the Watergate Hotel in 1972, that led to the downfall of President Nixon. Start from the beginning of the series and watch the first episode of White House Plumbers for free. Frank Sturgis was a police officer, private investigator, Marine and anti-communist recruited by Howard Hunt to assist with the Watergate break-in.