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EXCLUSIVE: Peter Gallagher (The O.C.) is group to subordinate Andie MacDowell successful The Right Side, nan independently produced drama bid from Max Talisman and Lynne Kamm, presently gearing up for accumulation successful New York.
The task puts Gallagher and MacDowell connected surface together for nan first clip successful galore years. They first starred together successful Steven Soderbergh’s Sex, Lies & Videotape astir 4 decades ago, earlier going connected to stock nan surface successful nan Robert Altman films The Player and Short Cuts.
As we reported successful January, The Right Side is simply a communicative astir authorities arsenic content, family arsenic collateral damage, and nan intolerable task of loving group you fundamentally disagree with. Dyllón Burnside and Talisman are besides group to star.
The communicative originates pinch a live, on-air announcement that turns a terminal unwellness into a nationalist spectacle. America’s astir beloved blimpish TV couple’s cautiously curated nationalist persona collides pinch their very existent family erstwhile their liberal, podcast-famous kids return location for a web tribute special. Notably, nan aforesaid kids big a show dedicated to tearing down everything their parents guidelines for.
MacDowell plays Ruthie, a right-wing news personage and co-host of a greeting show whose public-facing matrimony — and backstage life arsenic a mother of twins — is tested arsenic nan family is forced into nan spotlight. Gallagher plays Ruthie’s hubby and longtime tv counterpart, nan different half of a matrimony that has go inseparable from nan family marque itself. Their narration sits astatine nan halfway of nan bid arsenic nan family is pulled into nationalist position successful ways it tin nary longer control.
Talisman and Kamm are co-showrunners, executive producers, and writers of The Right Side, which will sprout successful New York. Buzz Koenig and Darren Goldberg will besides exec nutrient for Atlantic Pictures, alongside Katharina Eggmann, who is handling casting, Trent Anderson, and Jess Sonnenfeld Jolles.
Gallagher is simply a seasoned character who has been seen successful classical films for illustration American Beauty and While You Were Sleeping and additionally been seen starring successful bid for illustration The O.C. and Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist. Most precocious seen successful The Beauty, FX’s assemblage scary bid from Ryan Murphy and Matthew Hodgson, he is repped by Gersh.
