Overview
- Netflix released a first-look photo on Friday and named 13 new recurring cast members, confirming the eight-episode season is now shooting in London.
- Michael Fassbender leads as Joe Kennedy Sr., with Laura Donnelly as Rose, Nick Robinson as Joe Kennedy Jr., and newcomer Joshuah Melnick as Jack.
- New roles include Wyatt Russell as Charles Lindbergh, Toby Huss as President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eddie Marsan as J. Edgar Hoover, Albert Welling as Winston Churchill, Patrick Fischler as journalist Arthur Krock, and Caitlin FitzGerald as Clare Boothe Luce.
- The series adapts historian Fredrik Logevall’s JFK biography and comes from Chernin Entertainment, with executive producers Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Eric Roth, and Logevall alongside Shaw and Vinterberg.
- No premiere date is set, though Season 1 centers on the 1930s–1940s rise of Joe and Rose Kennedy and the early rivalry between Joe Jr. and Jack.