Tony Goldwyn is coming back to TV, and that’s awesome
Tony Goldwyn has found his first project after Scandal, and here’s why we’re thrilled that he’s joining the cast of Netflix’s original series Chambers.
Tony Goldwyn is headed to Netflix in one of the great casting moves of the season.
Fresh off his role as President Fitzgerald “Fitz” Grant III on ABC‘s Scandal, Goldwyn has been named a series regular in Netflix’s upcoming series Chambers. His casting was announced on Thursday.
In Chambers, he’ll portray Ben Lefevre, a powerful businessman whose daughter Becky dies suddenly. After Becky’s heart is donated to another young woman, the recipient begins to believe that there is something suspicious about Becky’s death and sets out to uncover the truth.
That truth may involve Ben, whose wealth supports a spiritual center known as The Annex Foundation, and who is described as having a “mystical bent that knows no bounds.”
His wife Nancy is played by Uma Thurman, who most recently recurred as Lenny Cohen on Bravo’s con-artist series Imposters.
Netflix hasn’t announced the rest of the cast or a premiere date for Chambers, but the casting of Tony Goldwyn automatically makes this must-watch TV.
Goldwyn is one of the best artists of his generation — as an actor, as a director, and as a storyteller. It was almost baffling that Scandal was his first regular role on TV because he’s so talented that he could have led any show he wanted to before that.
But his seven seasons on Scandal showed yet another side to his talents. It gave audiences the chance to see him develop one character over more than 100 episodes and more plot twists than you could shake a stick at. He took everything that could possibly be thrown at an actor, and he excelled at it.
This is a medium where he still has a ton of untapped potential, and Chambers seems like the perfect fit to capitalize on it.
It’s not hard to guess that Ben Lefevre isn’t going to be a picture-perfect philanthropist and nice guy. He sounds more like Michael Vartan’s Terence Anderson from The Arrangement, with one public image and another in private — which is a whole lot more complicated if not outright evil.
Goldwyn is great on both sides of the spectrum. He’s incredibly charismatic and endearing, as he happens to be that way in real life; he’s one of entertainment’s true gentlemen. At the same time, when the script calls for him to break bad, he can truly go there.
This is the man who played Warren Jeffs in Lifetime‘s movie Outlaw Prophet and left TV fans unable to sleep at night. He was that disturbing. And as for the supernatural element, he’s also the actor who portrayed his own nefarious twin in two episodes of Without A Trace. He made that look easy, so he should be fine in whatever odd story Chambers puts him at the center of.
That’s what makes Goldwyn a perfect casting choice for Netflix. He has the skills to make his Chambers character as dark and ruthless as he may need to, but he’s also got the presence and a healthy dose of charisma to humanize that intensity and make Ben a three-dimensional person, not just a caricature.
And for viewers, it will be an absolute joy to watch one of the best actors working today as he continues to develop his craft on the small screen. He’s going to be brilliant, and Netflix made an outstanding move in bringing Goldwyn back to TV.
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