The No. 1 boy is on high as soon as once more.
Jeremy Robust took residence his first Tony award Sunday night time, successful the Finest Actor in a Play Tony for his function as Physician Thomas Stockmann in “An Enemy of the Individuals.” The play — initially produced within the Eighties — facilities on a whistleblower who discovers that there’s poison within the city’s water provide. His brother (Michael Imperioli) and the city need him to be quiet lest he harm the burgeoning native economic system. Evidently, there are many present real-world parallels about fact tellers, science, and well being vs economic system points.
“I wish to thank the ushers and the entrance of home workers who see me strolling in day-after-day wanting like I’ve simply been run over by a truck, and see me stroll out by some means wanting even worse,” Robust joked in his acceptance speech. “Sam [Gold] and Amy [Herzog], you guys, thanks. That is loopy. Sam, thanks for being every part an actor may hope for and a director and for bringing new which means to the time period ‘Ice Bucket Problem.’ Amy, on your masterful work on this play. The final time I did a play of yours I met Emma, my spouse, who I now have three lovely kids with. And now … actual fast. This play is a cry from the guts and the following rotation to withstand the troublesome truths which are staring us all down proper now. It’s been a privilege to offer its warning and its hope to audiences. … Mother and Dad, thanks for permitting me to think about.”
Robust’s reference to the ‘Ice Bucket Problem’ comes later within the present, when native townspeople are livid at Robust’s character for talking the reality and actually pour buckets of ice on him. Naturally, the Technique Actor fan apparently went by way of with that brutal tub every night.
“A bitter satire of native politics that quickly reveals itself as a slow-boil tragedy of human complacency,” The New York Occasions wrote in its assessment. “Its characters, too, are modern: doppelgängers of our personal vicious demagogues, cowed editors, greasy both-sides-ists and defanged idealists. Greater than as soon as, I believed Robust should have modeled his spectacularly correct but non-showy efficiency on Dr. Anthony Fauci, the embattled former infectious illness skilled, together with not simply his messianic religion in science but in addition his barely mastered disdain, social weirdness and haircut.”
That is the primary Tony win for Robust. He received an Emmy for his main function as Kendall Roy in HBO’s “Succession,” amongst different honors, which wrapped its four-season critically acclaimed run in 2023. For his function in “An Enemy of the Individuals,” Robust was additionally nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award and a Drama League Award.
Robust made his Broadway debut in 2008 in “A Man for All Seasons.” Publish-“Succession,” Robust most notably portrayed Roy Cohn in “The Apprentice,” a movie about Donald Trump’s early days co-starring Sebastian Stan, that premiered at Cannes in Could 2024.
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