Thursday, March 21, 2013

Signor Cardinal

Emmy winner Kyle Chandler (TV’s Friday Night Lights, Argo, Zero Dark Thirty) is going to the Vatican.

For Showtime.

The actor, who was one of the gets this pilot season, has signed on to play Thomas Duffy on the cabler’s The Vatican.

Chandler will play a charismatic and enigmatic New York archbishop-turned-cardinal whose progressive leanings excite some and alarm others with the hierarchy of the Church.

The show, which already has proven to be quite the magnet for controversy because it intends to be a genre thriller (i.e., a dramatization that takes liberties), will explore the relationships and rivalries, not to mention the mysteries and miracles, behind one of the worlds most secretive institutions.

Can’t wait. Especially now that this guy is involved. ’Cause Kyle Chandler can’t lose.

Photo: Facepunch.com.

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