Jonathan Bailey cast in Showtime Limited Series "Fellow Travelers"
‘Bridgerton’ Star Jonathan Bailey Joins Matt Bomer in Showtime Limited Series ‘Fellow Travelers’ https://t.co/GUC42n1FyM
- Variety (@Variety) July 11, 2022
Fresh off season 2 of Bridgerton, Jonathan Bailey has been cast in a lead role in "Fellow Travelers," alongside previously announced cast members Matt Bomer and Alison Williams. The show is based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Mallon.
Synopsis from the article:
"The handsome and charismatic Hawkins Fuller (Bomer) avoids emotional entanglements - until he meets Tim Laughlin (Bailey), a young man brimming with idealism and religious faith. They begin a romance just as Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn declare war on “subversives and sexual deviants,” initiating one of the darkest periods in 20th-century American history. Over the course of four decades, Hawk and Tim cross paths through the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the drug-fueled disco hedonism of the 1970s and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, while facing obstacles in the world and in themselves.
Laughlin is further described as a young Fordham University graduate, earnest about his political and religious convictions and filled with optimism about the post-WWII future."
The series will have 8 episodes and begins production in Toronto later this month. Bomer is also executive producing. Philadelphia writer Ron Nyswaner is adapting the book, as well as executive producing. Daniel Minahan, who recently directed “Halston” for Netflix, will direct the first two episodes.
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