Penn disappears under the prosthetics and exudes controlled rage as Martha’s husband John, who was Nixon’s campaign chairman and then attorney general-and then one of the many corrupt soldiers in the Nixon White House who fell on their swords (or were pushed onto their swords) in the Watergate scandal.īoth actors are delivering true character performances, and they’re absolutely electric together. When it comes to star power, nobody outshines Oscar winners Roberts and Penn, but Roberts slips back into her Southern accent and loses herself in the fashions and hairstyles of the time while delivering a devastatingly effective performance as the booze-soaked, ferociously independent and tragic Martha Mitchell. Sunday on Starz and is available then on the Starz app and the Starz streaming and on-demand platforms. The first of eight episodes premieres at 7 p.m. We’re sure having fun watching them ham it up. It must be a blast for so many A-list actors to don the makeup and the wardrobe, lean into the archives and create indelible fictionalizations of famous and infamous figures from recent American history. The Cabinet of Hollywood Stars playing political figures from the last half-century on streaming series continues to grow, from Jeff Daniels as James Comey and Brendan Gleeson as Donald Trump in “The Comey Rule” to Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp and Clive Owen as Bill Clinton in “Impeachment: American Crime Story” to Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes in “The Loudest Voice” toViola Davis as Michelle Obama and Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford in “The First Lady”-and now comes the Starz limited series “Gaslit,” with Julia Roberts as Martha Mitchell and Sean Penn as John Mitchell. How can a society function like that? How can people live together without a shared understanding of right and wrong?” - Early whistleblower in Watergate scandal in “Gaslit.” “But if every evil is justified in pursuit of some sacred truth, then laws don’t matter anymore, right? People don’t even matter.
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