Bradley Whitford is not going to be in attendance at The West Wing White House celebration nor the rumored reunion presumably happening on the 76th Primetime Emmys tonight, each of that are tied to the Aaron Sorkin present’s twenty fifth anniversary.
“It breaks my coronary heart not to have the ability to be with my West Wing household on the Emmys tonight or on the White Home later this week to rejoice our twenty fifth birthday, however I’m in Budapest on one other White Home set pretending to work for one more administration. (I do know. I must work on my vary.)” he wrote, per a social media thread he posted to X Sept. 15.
Whitford is currently in production for the upcoming Netflix drama sequence Dying by Lightning, reverse Matthew Macfadyen, Michael Shannon, Betty Gilpin, Nick Offerman and others. The present, which is capturing in Hungary, follows the stranger-than-fiction story of James Garfield (Shannon), the reluctant twentieth president of the USA, and his biggest admirer Charles Guiteau (Macfadyen) — the person who would come to kill him. Whitford will painting Secretary of State James Blaine. Filming commenced in early July.
“My God, the writing on The West Wing,” he continued. “These characters. Performed by individuals I like and admire and get to be a part of a household with for the remainder of my life. As [costar] Janel [Moloney] said in her beautiful piece, it was, and in some way continues to be, a privilege. A present.”
The Get Out star continued, “I’m pondering of our unimaginable crew. Of the a whole bunch of individuals you by no means noticed who made this occur. I’m pondering of Aaron. Of the miracle of an excellent author sitting in a room and having an concept that made all of this doable. And I’m pondering of John Spencer [who died of a heart attack in 2005]. Of how a lot we miss him. Of what a kick he would have gotten out of tonight. The farther away from the present I get, the extra grateful I’m to have been part of it. I’m happy with its ongoing legacy that celebrates hope and public service in a world that may now not afford cynicism and despair.”
The three-time Emmy winner (who nabbed the award for his performances in The West Wing, Clear and The Handmaid’s Story) concluded his thread with a name to motion: “So what’s subsequent? To rejoice our anniversary, I hope you’ll test your voter registration and make a plan to vote!!!”
Per earlier unique reporting from Deadline, the White Home will host an anniversary occasion Sept. 20, with president Joe Biden ushering within the festivities alongside the sequence’ creators and solid. The present, which ran for seven seasons on NBC, debuted Sept. 22, 1999.
Given the Emmys penchant for nostalgia, as reaffirmed by the seventy fifth telecast held earlier this yr in January, it’s doable {that a} West Wing fete is in retailer. Stars Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, Dulé Hill, Richard Schiff, Jimmy Smits and Moloney have been introduced as contributors or presenters on the Emmys, although no official affirmation was given by the manufacturing crew. Nonetheless, when chatting with reporters forward of the weekend, the producers teased a secret reunion, of their bid to recreate the identical “power of nostalgia” because the earlier ceremony.
