'Gaslit' Star Julia Roberts Won't Be Silenced In Starz' Watergate Scandal Series

In recent times, America has been swept by many top-level scandals that have revealed much shocking information about the country alongside narratives of political deception and abuse of power. "Gaslit," a new limited series from Starz, promises to provide another view at one of America's most divisive events: Watergate.

The series would feature Julia Roberts as the lead female who plays a crucial role in uncovering some secrets about the scandal. Now, Starz has premiered the show's trailer, whetting fans' appetite and increasing the anticipation for the upcoming series.

Read below for more details.

The official full-length trailer for the highly anticipated Starz series "Gaslit" recently got aired by its showrunners. The trailer revealed that veteran actor Julia Roberts would portray Martha Mitchell, delivering a brief show of her characters' outspokenness.

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"Ya'll just gonna stand around, or are you gonna ask me some questions?" Martha posed to the press in the trailer. The following scenes revealed desperate moves by the government to keep Martha's "big mouth" under control. However, she looked ready to defy all odds saying, "If that gets me banned off Air Force 1, I will fly commercial."

In most of the scenes in the trailer, Roberts looked resplendent, well dressed in different classy garbs, and oozed an air of reverence despite the troubles she seemed to be stirring. Ultimately, the teaser offered fans a taste of what's to expect in the upcoming Watergate thriller.

"Gaslit" focuses on the iconic Watergate crisis's unseen stories and forgotten personalities. It includes a deeper view into Nixon's inept and opportunistic aides, the crazed fanatics who facilitated their crimes, and the whistleblowers who disclosed the entire sordid affair to the public.

More particularly, the series will spotlight Roberts' Martha, the wife of President Nixon's faithful Attorney General, John Mitchell (Sean Penn). Martha was the first to raise the alarm about Nixon's role in Watergate, leading both the Presidency and her personal life to fall apart.

Martha's husband John is described as a "temperamental, foul-mouthed and ruthless – yet hopelessly in love with his famously outspoken wife." Eventually, he is compelled to pick between his wife and the president as her indulgent mouth sort to endanger his political aspirations.

Robbie Pickering developed, and executive produced the series based on the first season of the critically acclaimed "Slow Burn" podcast. Matt Ross, together with Sam Esmail, Roberts, Lisa Gillan, Marisa Yeres Gill, Gabriel Roth, and Josh Levin, also produced the film while The podcast's creator, Leon Neyfakh, consulted on the project.

Although Starz is yet to give the complete list of cast members, they dropped some information about the show's main cast. Already confirmed in the series are Dan Stevens as John Dean, Betty Gilpin as Mo Dean, Shea Whigham as G. Gordon Liddy, and Darby Camp as Marty Mitchell.

Martha was the target of a sexist propaganda campaign after raising her misgivings about Nixon in 1972, and she was purportedly held captive for four days inside a California hotel room.

When it came to choosing the actress that would portray the role, "Gaslit" creator, Robbie Pickering revealed to Vanity Fair that Roberts was his initial pick as she reminded him of ladies he knew during his formative years in a devout evangelical family.

He also commended Penn's acting for its "humanity and warmth" and how it would help aid self-evaluation in the lives of the film's viewers. "I want people to look into these characters and see themselves, and how the propensity to be complicit in things that are morally repugnant or morally dubious is within all of us," Pickering said.

The series will debut on April 24 at 8 p.m. PT/ET on Starz.