Brendan Fraser’s WWII Movie Adds Oscar-Nominated Star To Cast

Pressure has added another Oscar-nominated actor to the cast. The upcoming World War II drama stars Ripley, Fleabag, and All 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 in 2022’s The Whale, as President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The movie, which begins principal photography in September, will be directed by Hotel Mumbai‘s Anthony Maras.

Per Deadline, Kerry Condon has joined the cast of Pressure. 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 memoir Eisenhower Was My Boss and the autobiography Past Forgetting: My Love Affair, which together were adapted into the 1979 miniseries Ike: The War Years starring 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 series Rome in the mid-2000s. In fact, Condon was nominated for her Oscar, for her role as Siobhán Súilleabháin in 2022’s The Banshees of Inisherin, the same year that Fraser won his for The Whale. However, she lost the award to Jamie Lee Curtis, who won for Everything Everywhere All At Once, which swept the Academy Awards, winning 7 Oscars including Best Picture.

Before joining the cast of Pressure, 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 after Rome, she has appeared in several major television productions as well, including three episodes of The Walking Dead, one episode of Gypsy, nine episodes of Ray Donovan, and 18 episodes of Better Call Saul. On the big screen, one of her biggest roles has been voicing the AI assistant F.R.I.D.A.Y. in multiple Marvel Cinematic Universe movies.

Condon has also appeared in the Oscar-winning movie Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri opposite Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell as well as the 2024 horror movie Night Swim opposite Wyatt Russell. With so many unique roles under her belt, she should be well equipped to return to the fairly straightforward war drama of Pressure and bring her real-life character to the screen with aplomb.

Source: Deadline