Bradley Whitford won’t be in attendance at The West Wing White Home 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 have fun our twenty fifth birthday, however I’m in Budapest on one other White Home set pretending to work for an additional 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 presently in manufacturing for the upcoming Netflix drama sequence Dying by Lightning, reverse Matthew Macfadyen, Michael Shannon, Betty Gilpin, Nick Offerman and others. The present, which is taking pictures in Hungary, follows the stranger-than-fiction story of James Garfield (Shannon), the reluctant twentieth president of the US, and his best 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] mentioned in her lovely piece, it was, and one way or the other continues to be, a privilege. A present.”
The Get Out star continued, “I’m considering of our unbelievable crew. Of the tons of of individuals you by no means noticed who made this occur. I’m considering of Aaron. Of the miracle of a superb author sitting in a room and having an concept that made all of this attainable. And I’m considering 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 pleased 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 have fun 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 forged. 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 attainable {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 individuals or presenters on the Emmys, although no official affirmation was given by the manufacturing group. Nevertheless, when chatting with reporters forward of the weekend, the producers teased a secret reunion, of their bid to recreate the identical “vitality of nostalgia” because the earlier ceremony.
