The first images have been released from Ryan Murphy and Ben Platt’s new Netflix musical comedy series, The Politician.
The upcoming show is Pose creator Ryan Murphy’s first show under a big-budget deal that will see him create exclusively for Netflix. The Politician stars Dear Evan Hansen’s Ben Platt Tony Award-winning Dear Evan Hansen actor Ben Platt will star in the show as mega-wealthy student and aspiring future politician Payton Hobart, who is partly inspired by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
The eight-episode series also stars Gwenyth Paltrow as Hobart’s adoptive mother Georgina, in an apparent parody of herself. American Horror Story star Jessica Lange and Bette Midler also have roles in the project.
A synopsis explains: “Payton Hobart (Ben Platt), a wealthy student from Santa Barbara, California, has known since age seven that he’s going to be President of the United States. But first he’ll have to navigate the most treacherous political landscape of all: Saint Sebastian High School”.
Murphy previously said his deal with the streaming giant will allow him to continue to “champion LGBTQ heroes and heroines.” He said: “The history of this moment is not lost on me. I am a gay kid from Indiana who moved to Hollywood in 1989 with $55 dollars in savings in my pocket, so the fact that my dreams have crystallised and come true in such a major way is emotional and overwhelming to me”.
The Politician arrives on Netflix on September 27.
Via Pink News!
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