Huge casting for 24 producers – Deadline reveals that Stephen Fry will be playing the British Prime Minister.
EXCLUSIVE: The UK’s resident renaissance man, popular British actor/comedian/writer/game show host Stephen Fry has been tapped for a high-profile recurring role in Fox‘s event series 24: Live Another Day, which will premiere May 5. The next chapter in the 24 franchise, from 20th TV, Imagine TV and Teakwood Lane, picks up the story four years after the series finale, which left Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) as a fugitive from justice, this time in London.
Fry will play Prime Minister Trevor Davies, a strong and charismatic leader whose friendship with President Heller (William Devane), and the Anglo-American alliance itself, come under tremendous pressure because of personal and political crises. Fry, repped by ICM Partners and UK’s Hamilton Hodell, has a relationship with Fox and 20th after doing an arc on their drama series Bones. Next month, he will make his ninth turn hosting the BAFTA film awards.
Filming for the miniseries begins tomorrow.
19 Comments
Comments ClosedCatherine
January 24, 2014 at 4:10 pmJack
January 24, 2014 at 4:55 pmJack
January 24, 2014 at 4:55 pmCatherine
January 24, 2014 at 5:07 pmXAM
January 24, 2014 at 5:58 pmBig fat meh for the casting so far.
John Smith
January 24, 2014 at 9:43 pmXAM
January 25, 2014 at 11:12 amautofill
January 25, 2014 at 10:16 amXAM
January 25, 2014 at 12:29 pmWouldntYouLikeToKnow
January 25, 2014 at 2:39 pmVi
January 25, 2014 at 2:04 pmmoses
January 24, 2014 at 8:51 pmGerry Mander
January 24, 2014 at 11:52 pmautofill
January 25, 2014 at 10:16 am24bauerfan
January 25, 2014 at 6:57 amSharan
January 25, 2014 at 7:07 amJack
January 25, 2014 at 10:44 amFor those viewers in the UK, they may not take the show as realistically. The same thing happens to me whenever big movies cast big named actors like Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt etc.
Although they are good actors, their widespread ‘fanbase’ or ‘popularity’ kind of takes away from the story for me. It makes it push the point even further that you’re watching a TV show and it isn’t real life – whereas with relatively unknown actors such as Carlos Bernard & Mary Lynn Rajskub, you don’t see them on TV (much) so it kind of makes it seem more real.
XAM
January 25, 2014 at 11:32 amIt’s worse with Stephen Fry because unlike those 3 names he’s not actually a good actor and he’s absolutely bloody everywhere, whether presenting something, being on one of those witty panel shows, or playing the same character in everything he’s in.
Marlon
January 26, 2014 at 11:19 am