Eye candy *and* the emotional soul on Netflix's The Politician
Leah Thompson in Cosmopolitan.com tells us that he [David Corenswet] “kinda sorta plays Ben Platt’s love interest. And ours as well. There’s no easy way to say this: He’s a dreamy hunkboat — all 6’4” of him. If our Man Candy Radar is correct, the actor is about to be expedited to the top of the swoon-worthy roster, or whatever.”
Time Magazine describes Ryan Murphy, the creator of Netflix’s “The Politician” as The King of the Steaming Boom. Time describes “a string of hits” that Murphy has created, including “Fox’s prime-time musical Glee in 2009, which—with tours, merchandising and a reality-show spin-off—became an asset worth hundreds of millions of dollars. For FX he dreamed up American Horror Story in 2011, one of the first series to function as an anthology, reimagining the show anew each season. For HBO he directed an adaptation of Larry Kramer’s play The Normal Heart in 2014, which won him an Emmy and earned eight more nominations. And for FX in 2016, he retold the O.J. Simpson saga in American Crime Story, earning the best reviews of his career.”
TheWrap.com reports that Shipley graduate and former Merion resident David Corenswet, has been cast as a lead on Murphy’s upcoming series “Hollywood,” which is also slated to stream on Netflix. According to TheWrap.com, “Little else has been revealed about “Hollywood,” except that Murphy calls it “a love letter to the Golden Age of Tinseltown.”
Corenswet is 26. When he was 11, he performed in a production at the People’s Light and Theater Company of “The Forgiving Harvest.” The Inquirer’s theater critic Douglas Keating mentioned him briefly, writing that “David Corenswet is fine as the oddly named Great.”
Corenswet acted in plays at Shipley and was also a National Merit Finalist. In 2012, he performed in the Upper Darby Summer Stage production of Hairspray, in the role of (who else?) the debonair Corny Collins.