{"id":926955,"date":"2026-10-13T19:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/926955\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T19:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:06:10","slug":"katherine-waterston-joins-post-9-11-limited-series-the-best-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/926955\/","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Waterston Joins Post-9\/11 Limited Series \u2018The Best Of Us\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/katherine-waterston\/\" id=\"auto-tag_katherine-waterston\" data-tag=\"katherine-waterston\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katherine Waterston<\/a> (The Agency, The Uprising) is the latest star to join the cast of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/paramount-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paramount-2\" data-tag=\"paramount-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount+<\/a>\u2018s limited series <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-best-of-us\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-best-of-us\" data-tag=\"the-best-of-us\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Best of Us<\/a>, which has been shooting in New York City since last month. She will star opposite Jeremy Strong in the upcoming six-episode limited series inspired by the David vs. Goliath fight that won justice for 9\/11\u2019s ailing heroes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWaterston will play Amy Smith, a lawyer and the soon-to-be ex-wife of Jason (Strong).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFrom writers Tobias Lindholm and Frank Pugliese, the 6-episode series The Best of Us dramatizes a landmark case that reshaped the fight for accountability: a relentless legal war that stretched nearly a decade to secure almost $1 billion in compensation for first responders who fell gravely ill in the wake of 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStrong leads the cast as renowned class action lawyer Jason Smith, who risked everything to take on entrenched institutions, exposing the politics, greed, corruption, and betrayal that compounded tragedy, set against the emergency workers\u2019 remarkable unity and bravery as the World Trade Center was collapsing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn addition to Strong, the previously announced cast also includes Barry Pepper as Coach, a former NYPD police officer and 9\/11 first responder suffering from leukemia due to his work at Ground Zero; Andrea Riseborough as Molly, Coach\u2019s resilient wife; Neal Huff as Peter Allen, Jason\u2019s pragmatic colleague at the law firm; Gaby Hoffmann as Kathleen McCormick, a seasoned FDNY firefighter and activist; Sky Yang as The Lost Son, a young and mysterious homeless man; and John Slattery as James Leavitt, a highly experienced and formidable defense lawyer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe guest cast includes LaChanze, Richard Schiff, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Joe Morton, Jen Tullock, William Baldwin, and Keith W. Richards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tProduced by Paramount Television Studios and Sister, the limited series is written, directed, and executive produced by Lindholm and written and executive produced by Pugliese. Strong is also an executive producer, along with Tony Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWaterston was recently seen in Paul Greengrass\u2019 The Uprising and in the Paramount+ series The Agency alongside Michael Fassbender. Before that, she starred in Fackham Hall, a British Period Comedy written by Jimmy Carr. Additional credits include the latest installment in the Fear Street franchise, Prom Queen, The End We Start From, Slow Horses, Perry Mason, They Listen, Babylon, Inherent Vice, Alien: Covenant, and the Fantastic Beasts film series. Waterston is represented by UTA, Strand Entertainment, LARK Management, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Waterston (The Agency, The Uprising) is the latest star to join the cast of Paramount+\u2018s limited&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,494281,14627,494282,427],"class_list":["post-926955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-katherine-waterston","tag-paramount","tag-the-best-of-us","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}