Jeffrey Wright has taken on advanced robots in Westworld, played a prohibition-era baddy in Boardwalk Empire, and investigated crimes as Jim Gordon in The Batman, but the Oscar-nominated actor is taking on a fresh role in the new political thriller, The Agency.
In anticipation of the show’s premiere on Paramount+ with Showtime, Wright visited the TV Insider offices to discuss his role in the expansive project which is a new spin on the French series Le Bureau des Legendes. Following a covert CIA agent, Martian (Michael Fassbender), the series explores what happens when he is ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station.
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