Tony Goldwyn is coming back to TV, and thatās awesome
Tony Goldwyn has found his first project after Scandal, and hereās why weāre thrilled that heās joining the cast of Netflixās original series Chambers.
Tony Goldwyn is headed to Netflix in one of the great casting moves of the season.
Fresh off his role as President Fitzgerald āFitzā Grant III on ABCās Scandal, Goldwyn has been named a series regular in Netflixās upcoming series Chambers. His casting was announced on Thursday.
In Chambers, heāll portray Ben Lefevre, a powerful businessman whose daughter Becky dies suddenly. After Beckyās heart is donated to another young woman, the recipient begins to believe that there is something suspicious about Beckyās death and sets out to uncover the truth.
That truth may involve Ben, whose wealth supports a spiritual center known as The Annex Foundation, and who is described as having a āmystical bent that knows no bounds.ā
His wife Nancy is played by Uma Thurman, who most recently recurred as Lenny Cohen on Bravoās con-artist series Imposters.
Netflix hasnāt announced the rest of the cast or a premiere date for Chambers, but the casting of Tony Goldwyn automatically makes this must-watch TV.
Goldwyn is one of the best artists of his generation ā as an actor, as a director, and as a storyteller. It was almost baffling that Scandal was his first regular role on TV because heās so talented that he could have led any show he wanted to before that.
But his seven seasons on Scandal showed yet another side to his talents. It gave audiences the chance to see him develop one character over more than 100 episodes and more plot twists than you could shake a stick at. He took everything that could possibly be thrown at an actor, and he excelled at it.
This is a medium where he still has a ton of untapped potential, and Chambers seems like the perfect fit to capitalize on it.
Itās not hard to guess that Ben Lefevre isnāt going to be a picture-perfect philanthropist and nice guy. He sounds more like Michael Vartanās Terence Anderson from The Arrangement, with one public image and another in private ā which is a whole lot more complicated if not outright evil.
Goldwyn is great on both sides of the spectrum. Heās incredibly charismatic and endearing, as he happens to be that way in real life; heās one of entertainmentās true gentlemen. At the same time, when the script calls for him to break bad, he can truly go there.
This is the man who played Warren Jeffs in Lifetimeās movie Outlaw Prophet and left TV fans unable to sleep at night. He was that disturbing. And as for the supernatural element, heās also the actor who portrayed his own nefarious twin in two episodes of Without A Trace. He made that look easy, so he should be fine in whatever odd story Chambers puts him at the center of.
Thatās what makes Goldwyn a perfect casting choice for Netflix. He has the skills to make his Chambers character as dark and ruthless as he may need to, but heās also got the presence and a healthy dose of charisma to humanize that intensity and make Ben a three-dimensional person, not just a caricature.
And for viewers, it will be an absolute joy to watch one of the best actors working today as he continues to develop his craft on the small screen. Heās going to be brilliant, and Netflix made an outstanding move in bringing Goldwyn back to TV.
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