Bradley Whitford will not be in attendance at The West Wing White House celebration nor the rumored reunion possibly taking place at the 76th Primetime Emmys tonight, both of which are tied to the Aaron Sorkin show’s 25th anniversary. “It breaks my heart not to be able to be with my West Wing family at the Emmys tonight or at the White House later this week to celebrate our 25th birthday, but I’m in Budapest on another White House set pretending to work for another administration. (I know.
I need to work on my range.)” he wrote, per a social media thread he posted to X Sept. 15. Whitford is currently in production for the upcoming Netflix drama series Death by Lightning, opposite Matthew Macfadyen, Michael Shannon, Betty Gilpin, Nick Offerman and others.
The show, which is shooting in Hungary, follows the stranger-than-fiction tale of James Garfield (Shannon), the reluctant 20th president of the United States, and his greatest admirer Charles Guiteau (Macfadyen) — the man who would come to kill him.
Whitford will portray Secretary of State James Blaine. Filming commenced in early July. “My God, the writing on The West Wing,” he continued. “Those characters.
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