Fox has announced who will be playing the President of the United States in Season Seven of 24:
Cherry Jones has been cast as the next president of the United States on the upcoming season of “24,” Fox’s popular counterterrorism show.
Jones had a smallish part in “Ocean’s Twelve”; on NBC’s White House drama “The West Wing,” she played a Republican congresswoman who starts a campaign against federal funding of projects dealing with sexual diseases.
But the 50-year-old performer’s true calling card is as one of the foremost stage actresses in America. She won her second Tony Award for her Broadway role in “Doubt,” as Sister Aloysius, an autocratic nun who runs a Catholic school in the ’60s and takes on a priest who she believes is sexually molesting a student.
News of Jones’s “24″ role first surfaced late Friday in trade paper reports. In another sign of how preposterous the presidential race already has become, with more than 470 days to go, the Hollywood Reporter speculated the decision to cast Jones adds “another wrinkle” to the campaign, in which Sen. Hillary Clinton is polling at the front of the Democratic pack.
Which you want to write off as ridiculous, except that earlier this year the U.S. Military Academy at West Point confirmed to New Yorker magazine that Brig. Gen. Patrick Finnegan had traveled to California to tell producers of “24″ that its torture scenes were a bad influence on U.S. troops. He even suggested they do an episode in which torture backfires.
Yea, I don’t know who she is either.
July 21st, 2007 at 4:21 pm
How do you not know who she is? Okay, then I can’t blame you, but should at least recognize her face. I think she will play a good President, more so than Geena Davis.