HBO’s White House Plumbers looks like a must-see limited series if for no other reason than to watch Justin Theroux transform into G. Gordon Liddy. The trailer provides our first good look at Theroux as the Nixon flunkee who helped organize the Watergate break-in.
The cast of HBO’s five-episode series also includes Woody Harrelson as E. Howard Hunt, Lena Headey as Dorothy Hunt, Judy Greer as Fran Liddy, Domhnall Gleeson as John Dean, and Toby Huss as James McCord. Ike Barinholtz plays Jeb Magruder, Kathleen Turner is Dita Beard, Kim Coates is Frank Sturgis, Yul Vazquez is Bernard “Macho” Barker, Alexis Valdés is Felipe De Diego, and Nelson Ascencio is Virgilio “Villo” Gonzalez.
Additional limited series stars include Tony Plana as Eugenio “Muscolito” Martinez, Zoe Levin as Lisa Hunt, Liam James as Saint John Hunt, Kiernan Shipka as Kevan Hunt, and Tre Ryder as David Hunt. David Krumholtz plays William O. Bittman, F. Murray Abraham plays Judge Sirica, Rich Sommer is Egil “Bud” Krogh, and John Carroll Lynch plays John Mitchell.
White House Plumbers will premiere on May 1, 2023. New episodes will air on Mondays at 9pm ET/PT.
Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck created the series and serve as writers and executive producers. David Mandel directs and executive produces. Justin Theroux, Woody Harrelson, Frank Rich, David Bernad, Gregg Fienberg, Len Amato, Paul Lee, Mark Roybal Nne Ebong, and Ruben Fleischer also executive produce.
The White House Plumbers Plot, Courtesy of HBO:
White House Plumbers takes the audience behind-the-scenes of the Watergate scandal as Nixon’s political saboteurs, E. Howard Hunt (Harrelson) and G. Gordon Liddy (Theroux), accidentally topple the presidency they were zealously trying to protect… and their families along with it.
Chronicling actions on the ground, this satirical drama begins in 1971 when the White House hires Hunt and Liddy, former CIA and FBI, respectively, to investigate the Pentagon Papers leak. After failing upward, the unlikely pair lands on the Committee to Re-Elect the President, plotting several unbelievable covert ops – including bugging the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate complex.
Proving that history can sometimes be stranger than fiction, White House Plumbers sheds light on the lesser-known series of events that led to one of America’s greatest political crimes.
