Summary
Pressurehas added another Oscar-nominated actor to the cast. The upcoming World War II drama starsRipley,Fleabag, andAll of Us Strangers' Andrew Scott as Meteorological Officer James Stagg, whose work was instrumental in the storming of the beach in Normandy. The D-Day thriller is also set to star Brendan Fraser, who recently won an Oscar for his performance in2022’sThe Whale,as President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The movie, which begins principal photography in September, will be directed byHotel Mumbai’s Anthony Maras.
PerDeadline,Kerry Condon has joined the cast ofPressure. The Oscar-nominated actor will Captain Kay Summersby, who was a British Mechanised Transport Corps member who became a key aide to President Eisenhower during the preparations for D-Day. The real-life Summersby, who died in 1975, wrote the memoirEisenhower Was My Bossand the autobiographyPast Forgetting: My Love Affair, which together were adapted into the 1979 miniseriesIke: The War Yearsstarring Robert Duvall as Eisenhower and Lee Remick as Summersby.
Where You’ve Seen Kerry Condon Before Pressure
The Oscar-Nominated Star Has Appeared In Many Familiar Projects
Condon is an actor who has appeared in quite a few prominent projects since her early breakout role as Octavia of the Julii in the HBO seriesRomein the mid-2000s. In fact, Condon was nominated for her Oscar, for her role as Siobhán Súilleabháin in2022’sThe Banshees of Inisherin, the same year that Fraser won his forThe Whale. However,she lost the award to Jamie Lee Curtis, who won forEverything Everywhere All At Once, which swept the Academy Awards, winning 7 Oscars including Best Picture.
Before joining the cast ofPressure, Condon has proven her ability to adapt to a wide variety of genres and mediums over the course of her career. While the majority of her performances have been on the big screen afterRome, she has appeared in several major television productions as well, including three episodes ofThe Walking Dead, one episode ofGypsy, nine episodes ofRay Donovan, and 18 episodes ofBetter Call Saul. On the big screen,one of her biggest roles has been voicing the AI assistant F.R.I.D.A.Y.in multipleMarvel Cinematic Universe movies.
After debuting as F.R.I.D.A.Y. inAvengers: Age of Ultron, Condon reprised the voice role inCaptain America: Civil War,Spider-Man: Homecoming,Avengers: Infinity War, andAvengers: Endgame.
Condon has also appeared in the Oscar-winning movieThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouriopposite Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell as well as the 2024 horror movieNight Swimopposite Wyatt Russell. With so many unique roles under her belt, she should be well equipped to return to the fairly straightforward war drama ofPressureand bring her real-life character to the screen with aplomb.
