The pair will star in and executive produce The White House Plumbers, which centers on E. Howard Hunt (Harrelson) and G. Gordon Liddy (Theroux), who planned the Watergate burglary that eventually brought down Richard Nixon's presidency.
The five-episode series comes from Veep writers and executive producers Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck. It will tell the true story of how Nixon's political saboteurs and Watergate masterminds accidentally toppled the presidency they were zealously trying to protect. The show is based partly on public records from the era and partly on the book Integrity by Egil "Bud" Krogh and Matthew Krogh.
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Finally good looking out @Antidote
Got a feeling the chemistry between the two of them could make for an epic series
funny Harrelson is playing E. Howard Hunt because both Hunt and and Harrelson’s real-life father are implicated in the Kennedy Assassination. So is Theroux’s character
The title had me imagining a spoof of the Butler but focusing on the plumber (played by Woody Harrelson) who fixed the toilets of multiple presidents throughout modern history
recent cast additions
Corbin Bernsen (Psych) and Alexis Valdés
Bernsen will play Richard Kleindienst, the Harvard-educated attorney general that is tainted by the ITT scandal and a contentious confirmation process. He refuses to use his power to shield the Plumbers from investigators.
Valdés plays Felipe De Diego, a Cuban-American real estate broker and yachtsman who participates in every Plumbers operation except the one which ends in their arrest.
Kathleen Turner will be playing Dita Beard
My character’s Dita Beard, the woman who was exposed for bribing and which started it all. We filmed through grass and trees because we worked upstate. An empty hospital became our office.
Damn
This lineup is too good to be true
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Love to know what happened