Jeremy Strong is going from a corporate boardroom on TV to a whistleblower on Broadway.
The actor who plays Kendall Roy in the HBO television series Succession has signed on to play a man who tries to expose water contamination in a Norwegian spa town in Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play An Enemy of the People.
The play – with a rewrite from Amy Herzog – will premiere on Broadway in early 2024 at a theater to be revealed later, producers said. Herzog’s hit adaptation of A Doll’s House, which stars Jessica Chastain, was recently nominated for six Tony awards.
The rest of the cast will be announced later. Sam Gold, who won a Tony directing Fun Home, will helm the revival. It has been staged 10 times on Broadway since 1895.
It will be Strong’s second time on Broadway. He was in A Man for All Seasons in 2008 with Frank Langella and Patrick Page. Since then, his work on Succession has earned him an Emmy and a Golden Globe.
Strong will play a public-minded doctor in a small town who discovers the water supply for the public spa is contaminated and may have made tourists – the community’s economic lifeblood – ill. But his efforts to clean up the mess pit his ethics against political cowards and the media, leaving his family suffering.
Since gaining further recognition on the hit drama series, Strong has also appeared in James Gray’s Armageddon Time alongside Anne Hathaway, Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen.
In 2021, Strong also signed on to the 9/11 drama series The Best of Us focused on an ensemble cast of characters dealing with the fallout.
When asked about the impending end of the HBO drama, Strong said: “It will feel like a death, in a way.”
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