Sean Penn Is Unrecognizable in First Gaslit Trailer

We simply needed to do a double–take. 

On Feb. 2, STARZ launched the primary teaser for his or her new collection Gaslit, and we virtually didn’t acknowledge Sean Penn. Within the drama collection—which premieres April 24 and is predicated on the primary season of the Gradual Burn podcast by Leon Neyfakh—Penn stars as Richard Nixon‘s loyal Lawyer Common, John Mitchell. The teaser includes a totally reworked Penn, who sports activities a receding hairline and a big stature.

Gaslit, starring Penn, Julia Roberts, Dan Stevens and Betty Gilpin, is “a contemporary tackle Watergate that focuses on the untold tales and forgotten character of the scandal—from Nixon’s bumbling, opportunistic subordinates, to the deranged zealots aiding and abetting their crimes, to the tragic whistleblowers who would finally carry the entire rotten enterprise crashing down,” based on the collection description. 

“You’re the first particular person to publicly accuse the President for the Watergate break–in. Are you loopy?” An interviewer asks Martha Mitchell (Roberts), the wife of John, within the first look.

“I’m a Southern lady,” Martha provides. “We communicate our minds, I by no means cease talkin’.”