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Two-time Oscar nominee Michael Fassbender<\/a> (The Agency<\/em>, The Killer<\/em><\/a>) is on board to star as Joe Kennedy, Sr., in Netflix\u2019s Kennedy. <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0The eight-episode drama is based on\u00a0JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956<\/em> by Fredrik Logevall and has Sam Shaw (Castle Rock, Masters of Sex<\/em>) guiding the project as executive producer and showrunner.<\/p>\n \u201cKennedy <\/em>reveals the intimate lives, loves, rivalries, and tragedies that shaped the most iconic dynasty in modern history and helped create the world we live in today,\u201d reads Netflix\u2019s synopsis. \u201cBeginning in the 1930s, the first season charts the improbable ascent of Joe and Rose Kennedy and their nine children, including rebellious second son Jack, who struggles to escape the shadow of his golden boy older brother.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Additional executive producers include author Logevall, Eric Roth, Lila Byock, Anya Epstein, Dustin Thomason, and Anna O\u2019Malley. Chernin Entertainment\u2019s Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, and Kaitlin Dahill also executive produce. Thomas Vinterberg (The Hunt<\/em>) will direct and executive produce.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe story of the Kennedys is the closest we have to American mythology\u2014somewhere between Shakespeare and The Bold and the Beautiful<\/em>. But Fredrik Logevall\u2019s stunning, nuanced biography pulls a veil on the human strivings and burdens behind the myth, revealing as much about our present moment, how we got here and where we\u2019re going as about the Kennedys themselves,\u201d said Shaw in an interview with Tudum<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m thrilled to be able to explore this saga of a family and a world in transition with Eric Roth, Thomas Vinterberg and our incredible band of artists and partners, at a moment when our past feels urgently present.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.showbizjunkies.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Michael Fassbender as an assassin in \u2018The Killer\u2019 (Photo Credit: Netflix \u00a9 2023) Two-time Oscar nominee Michael Fassbender (The Agency, The Killer) is on board to star as Joe Kennedy, Sr., in Netflix\u2019s Kennedy. \u00a0The eight-episode drama is based on\u00a0JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 by Fredrik Logevall and has Sam Shaw […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2104649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2104648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Michael-Fassbender-to-Star-as-Joe-Sr-in-Kennedy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2104648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2104650,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104648\/revisions\/2104650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2104649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}