Sean Penn won’t return to Watergate TV series until all cast, crew get vaccinated

Penn has offered to facilitate the mandatory-for-all vaccination effort, free of charge, through his nonprofit organization Community Organized Relief Effort.

"Gaslit" focuses on the untold stories and forgotten characters of Watergate, from Nixon’s opportunistic subordinates to the deranged zealots aiding and abetting their crimes, to the tragic whistleblowers who would eventually bring down the whole enterprise. Penn will play Attorney General John Mitchell, Nixon’s most trusted adviser and best friend at the time. Julia Roberts will portray Martha Mitchell, the Arkansan socialite who was one of the first to publicly sound the alarm on Nixon’s involvement in Watergate, in spite of her affiliation to the president via her husband, John Mitchell. "Gaslit" is produced by UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, for Starz. Along with Robbie Pickering and Matt Ross, "Mr. Robot" creator Sam Esmail — via his overall deal with UCP — and Chad Hamilton serve as executive producers under their production banner Esmail Corp. Roberts will executive produce under her banner Red Om Films, along with co-executive producers Lisa Gillan and Marisa Yeres Gill. "Gaslit" reunites Esmail and Roberts, who worked together on the first season of the Amazon series "Homecoming."