Yahoo News Matthew Broderick joins American Crime Story: Katrina
The cast of American Crime Story: Katrina is starting to take shape, as Matthew Broderick has joined Annette Bening for the season.
The stage actor and Manchester by the Sea star has been cast as Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael D Brown, who was in charge of the federal disaster response to Hurricane Katrina.
Brown rose to notoriety when then-president George W Bush praised him, telling him he'd done "a heckuva job". America, naturally, disagreed.
American Crime Story: Katrina is one of a number of upcoming instalments of the original hit season, The People v OJ Simpson. Also in the works are features on the murder of Gianni Versace and the Monica Lewinsky/Bill Clinton scandal.
The series, which isn't set to air until 2018, will see stars cast as key players in the scandal, including US president Bush, secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin.
(Michael D Brown)
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And hoping to put himself forward for consideration in the Katrina story is none other than The People v OJ's John Travolta, who felt very much involved with the disaster.
"I told them I was interested and that it was up to them," he recently said. "I don't think they expected that I would say that, but because [Katrina] comes close to home, I felt that way.
"I'm very interested in the Katrina story because [my wife Kelly Preston] and I were actually a part of that in real life."
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