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Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie, The Regime) is group to prima other Jeremy Strong and Barry Pepper successful 9/12, Paramount+‘s upcoming six-episode constricted bid astir ailing 9/11 first responders’ David vs. Goliath ineligible conflict for compensation.
Written and directed by Tobias Lindholm and written by Frank Pugliese, 9/12 dramatizes a landmark lawsuit that reshaped nan conflict for accountability: a relentless ineligible warfare that stretched astir a decade to unafraid almost $1 cardinal successful compensation for first responders who fell gravely sick successful nan aftermath of 9/11.
Strong stars arsenic renowned people action lawyer Jason Smith, who risked everything to return connected entrenched institutions, exposing nan politics, greed, corruption and betrayal that compounded calamity group against nan emergency workers’ singular unity and bravery arsenic The World Trade Center was collapsing.
Pepper plays Coach, a erstwhile NYPD constabulary serviceman and 9/11 first responder suffering from leukemia, a consequence of his activity astatine crushed zero. He is reluctant to writer nan metropolis but is convinced to go nan look of nan suit successful bid to thief different victims.
Riseborough will play Molly, Coach’s resilient woman who is profoundly concerned astir her husband’s wellness and family’s future. She demands thief and finds dream successful Jason’s (Strong) ineligible expertise.
From Paramount Television Studios and Sister, 9/12 is executive produced by Strong, Lindholm and Pugliese.
Riseborough, who earned an Oscar information for Michael Morris’ 2022 movie To Leslie, most precocious starred successful Jan Komasa’s Good Boy and Paul Andrew Williams’Dragonfly. She has wrapped Alex Marx’s The Queen of Fashion, successful which she stars arsenic manner editor Isabella Blow, pinch upcoming projects besides including nan thriller First Woman, Ti West’s Ebenezer alongside Johnny Depp and Ian McKellen, and Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ High End. Riseborough, whose caller bid credits see Alice & Jack and The Regime, is repped by CAA, UK’s Independent Talent Group, Untitled Entertainment and Felker McGinnis & Ryan.
