EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner Barry Pepper (The Kennedys, Saving Private Ryan) is set to star opposite fellow Emmy winner Jeremy Strong in 9/12, Paramount+‘s upcoming six-episode limited series about ailing 9/11 first responders’ David vs. Goliath legal fight for compensation.
Written and directed by Tobias Lindholm and written by Frank Pugliese, 9/12 dramatizes a landmark case that reshaped the fight for accountability: a relentless legal war that stretched nearly a decade to secure almost $1 billion in compensation for first responders who fell gravely ill in the wake of 9/11.
Pepper will play Coach, a former NYPD police officer and 9/11 first responder suffering from leukemia, a result of his work at ground zero. He is reluctant to sue the city but is convinced to become the face of the lawsuit in order to help other victims.
As previously announced, Strong stars as renowned class action lawyer Jason Smith, who risked everything to take on entrenched institutions, exposing the politics, greed, corruption and betrayal that compounded tragedy set against the emergency workers’ remarkable unity and bravery as The World Trade Center was collapsing.
Both Smith and Coach are composite fictional characters inspired by real-life people.
From Paramount Television Studios and Sister, 9/12 is executive produced by Strong, Lindholm and Pugliese.
Pepper earned an Emmy Award for his portrayal of Robert F. Kennedy in the television miniseries The Kennedys. More recently, he starred in the crime thriller feature Bring Him to Me and the Paramount+ limited series Lawmen: Bass Reeves. Pepper is repped by Paradigm.
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