Having recently finished work for ‘Incendiary’ and currently rehearsing the play ‘The Pain and the Itch’ (for which a new cast member has been announced: Ian Charleson Award winner Andrea Riseborough) Matthew Macfadyen has already a new project lined up:

The Hollywood Reporter announced on May 10 (sorry for the delay but I was on holiday…) that along with Sam Rockwell and Toby Jones also Matthew Macfadyen had come on board “Frost/Nixon,” Working Title Films and Universal Pictures’ adaptation of the hit Peter Morgan play. Director is Ron Howard.

The play is based on a series of televised interviews that President Nixon granted David Frost in 1977 and that ended with a tacit admission of guilt regarding his role in the Watergate scandal. Frank Langella and Michael Sheen are reprising their Broadway roles as Nixon and Frost, respectively.

Rockwell is playing award-winning journalist James Reston Jr., the head researcher who helps Frost prep for the interviews. Jones will portray legendary Hollywood dealmaker Swifty Lazar, who negotiates the deal with Frost on behalf of Nixon. Macfadyen plays John Burt, a journalist for a weekly British television show.

Shooting will begin in late summer.