Jeremy Robust is about to star in a brand new restricted collection on Paramount+ centered round 9/11 first responders.
Finest identified for his position as Kendall Roy on HBO’s Succession, which earned him an Emmy for Excellent Lead Actor in a Drama Collection in 2020 and two further nominations, Robust has additionally been nominated for an Academy Award for Finest Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Roy Cohn in The Apprentice (2024). In keeping with The Hollywood Reporter, Robust has been solid in 9/12, a six-episode collection written, directed, and government produced by Tobias Lindholm.
The collection explores “a historic David vs. Goliath authorized battle confronted by first responders to the September 11, 2001, terrorist assaults, who finally fought for and gained compensation.” Robust will play class-action lawyer Jason Smith and also will function an government producer. Manufacturing is scheduled to start in 2026. Frank Pugliese can be concerned as a author and government producer.
Lindholm defined, “Though rooted within the unprecedented occasions of September 11, 2001, 9/12 addresses struggles that reach past that day. It questions what occurs when those that risked the whole lot are deserted by the establishments meant to guard them. The collection honors human resilience and perseverance within the face of unimaginable adversity — the very cause I needed to inform this story.”
Robust remarked, “Historian David Halberstam as soon as wrote about September 11, 2001, that ‘on a day when the worst of mankind confirmed itself, the perfect of mankind answered.’ 9/12 is about the perfect of us — our first responders, whose preliminary response time on 9/11 was simply 5 seconds. It captures a second of unity and resilience in a divided nation, when amid the wreckage, we got here collectively to rebuild and rise from the rubble.” The collection is about to premiere on Paramount+ in 2027.
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