Tall hairdos and low lights line the stage within the musical biopic restricted collection, George and Tammy. The Showtime collection highlights the chaotic, wild lifetime of being a worldwide famous person whereas navigating love, and focuses on the tumultuous relationship between Country music icons George Jones and Tammy Wynette. Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain are getting into the duo’s cowboy boots to carry their music and tales to life as George and Tammy tracks their meteoric rise to fame and every little thing that adopted. Here’s every little thing we all know up to now in regards to the restricted collection, from the trailer, and launch date to the solid, plot, and extra.
Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon exhibit their vocal chops and nation prowess within the trailer for George and Tammy. A interval piece set all through the 60s, 70s, and past, the hair is larger, the make-up brighter, and the roads are harder. Very a lot following the trajectory of the toll it takes to be a rock star, the trailer shines a lightweight on what goes on behind the scenes the place booze and capsules are involved. As George and Tommy’s careers skyrocket and so they fall out and in of affection, additionally they should cope with their vices and mortality. The most notable side of the trailer has acquired to be Chastain offering vocal accompaniment by singing Wynette’s greatest hit, “Stand By Your Man.” A number-one hit on the Billboard charts, it grew to become her signature music, and Chastain’s highly effective belt showcases that she’s greater than able to taking over the position of certainly one of nation’s greatest stars.
When and Where to Watch George and Tammy
George and Tammy will debut on Showtime on Sunday, December 4, 2022, at 9 pm ET. Originally slated to be a Paramount+ authentic collection, the primary episode may also air on the Paramount Network at 9 pm on December 4 following the hit collection, Yellowstone. After the primary episode, George and Tammy will air solely on Showtime all through its run. The restricted collection could have a complete of six episodes, with the collection finale arriving on Sunday, January 8, 2023. All episodes will likely be accessible to stream on Showtime.
Behind the Music: Who Are the Real George Jones and Tammy Wynette?
Country legends George Jones and Tammy Wynette had been each groundbreaking artists of their style and infrequently are known as the King and Queen of Country music. Both discovering early success on their very own, the 2 fell in love and had been married from 1969-1975, which noticed them spawn dozens of nation hits as an unstoppable music duo. Both married a number of instances all through their lives (they had been one another’s third marriage) and their life collectively offstage has turn out to be simply as well-known because the one they lived collectively below the highlight.
Tammy Wynette was born on May 5, 1952, within the small city of Itawamba County, Mississippi. She finally moved to Nashville with hopes of turning into a rustic music singer-songwriter in 1965, and the remainder is historical past. Within three years, Wynette had huge success with number-one hit singles “I Don’t Wanna Play House” and “D-I-V-O-R-C-E,” and was making a reputation for herself as a outstanding feminine voice throughout the male-dominated trade. But it was her subsequent number-one single “Stand By Your Man,” co-written by Billy Sherrill (performed by David Wilson Barnes within the collection), that may turn out to be her signature music and make her a legend. Married 4 instances in her life, she met fellow nation star George Jones within the late 60s and so they had been married for six years. As the 2 grew to become a profitable duo with hit singles like “Golden Ring,” Wynette struggled with an dependancy to painkillers whereas Jones battled alcoholism, and the pair finally divorced in 1975. Wynette remained a staple within the nation music style amidst numerous addictions and married her fourth and closing husband, George Richie (Steve Zahn), in 1978, earlier than passing away on the age of 55 in 1998.
George Jones was born on September 12, 1931, and was recognized within the nation music world for his deep baritone voice and hardened persona. His best-known singles embrace “He Stopped Loving Her Today,” “The Race is On,” and “Finally Friday.” Entering the music enterprise within the Fifties, he was an enduring presence throughout the style and launched hits in each decade until the 90s. Known for his vices and consuming issues, it prompted a serious drawback in his marriage with Tammy Wynette, and he additionally grew to become notorious for lacking numerous reveals on account of getting too drunk. Following his divorce from Wynette, Jones married his fourth and closing spouse Nancy Sepulvado, in 1983, and have become sober in 1999. Continuing to sing and carry out for the remainder of his life, Jones handed away on the age of 81 in 2013.
What Is George and Tammy About?
George and Tammy is based mostly on the memoir The Three of Us: Growing up with Tammy and George written by Georgette Jones. Born in 1970, Georgette is the couple’s first and solely youngster and witnessed the start of her dad and mom’ love and fame solely to see all of it come crashing down. Throughout the e book, Georgette chronicles what it was prefer to develop up within the shadow of nation music’s greatest couple, her mom’s dependancy to painkillers which led to her loss of life, and her father’s alcoholism which contributed to their estrangement. The collection will likely be taking all of the novel’s tell-all-moments and leaping throughout a number of a long time to do George and Tammy’s story justice, from the highs to the lows.
Who’s In the Cast of George and Tammy?
Jessica Chastain is taking part in Tammy Wynette. Chastain is an Academy Award-winning actress, successful the 2022 Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of one other real-life Tammy, Tammy Faye, in The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Making her movie debut in 2008 with the movie Jolene, 2011 served as Chastain’s breakout yr, during which she starred in each The Tree of Life and The Help, the latter of which acquired her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She then made waves as a number one girl for her portrayal of CIA analyst Maya Harris in Katherine Bigelow’s thriller Zero Dark Thirty, and Chastain acquired her second Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Actress. She’s gone on to star in a number of blockbuster movies and is thought for taking over headstrong characters with feministic themes. Before starring within the Showtime restricted collection, she co-starred within the HBO miniseries Scenes from a Marriage (2020) reverse Oscar Isaac. Michael Shannon is starring as Country singer George Jones in George and Tammy. A famend actor primarily recognized for his gritty supporting roles, Shannon has acquired two Best Supporting Actor nominations on the Academy Awards, for his performances in Revolutionary Road (2008) and Nocturnal Animals (2016). Hailed for the chameleon-like qualities that permit him to sink his tooth into any style from dramas and thrillers to comedies, Shannon is finest recognized for his roles in 8 Mile (2001), Shape of Water (2016), Knives Out (2019), and Bullet Train (2022). On tv, he has appeared in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire (2010-2014), and Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers (2021).
Steve Zahn is featured reverse Jessica Chastain as Tammy Wynette’s fourth and closing husband, George Richey. A widely known songwriter and producer, Richey additionally grew to become Wynette’s supervisor within the 70s and wrote numerous hits for her and George Jones whereas the pair carried out as a duo. Zahn is probably finest recognized for his work within the first season of The White Lotus because the privileged vacationer in disaster Mark Mossbacher, for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. Working within the trade because the 90s, his most notable works embrace the movies Reality Bites (1994), Happy, Texas (1999), and the Diary of a Wimpy Kid franchise collection. Walton Goggins is taking part in the prolific songwriter Earl “Peanutt” Montgomery within the restricted collection. Based in Nashville, Montgomery labored with numerous artists over his profession and wrote greater than 70 songs together with his frequent collaborator and good friend, George Jones. Goggins is thought for taking part in quirky larger-than-life roles and is at present starring within the HBO comedy collection The Righteous Gemstones as conman Baby Billy Freeman. He’s additionally starred within the FX Western collection Justified (2010-2015) and appeared within the films Django Unchained (2011), Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018), and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018).
Pat Healy will likely be portraying Tammy Wynette’s second husband and frequent collaborator, Don Chapel. A prolific Nashville songwriter, his most notable hit was “When the Grass Grows Over Me,” which was carried out and launched by George Jones in 1970. Healy has appeared in numerous movies and tv collection through the years, most recognizably for his ongoing position as Michael Dixon in Station 19, and the recurring character Jeff in Better Call Saul Season 6. The principal solid is rounded out by David Wilson Barnes because the well-known music producer Billy Sherrill. Primarily working in nation music, he collaborated with each Tammy Wynette and George Jones, and co-wrote Wynette’s greatest hit, “Stand By Your Man.” Barnes has steadily starred in numerous tv collection all through his profession, together with AMC’s The Son (2017-2019), HBO’s Perry Mason (2020), and most lately in Prime Video’s The Underground Railroad (2021).
Who Is Making George and Tammy?
George and Tammy is created by Abe Slyvia. Slyvia is a producer, author, and director, recognized for penning the screenplay for The Eyes of Tammy Faye, marking one other collaboration with Chastain. He’s additionally written and produced the collection Dead to Me (2019-2022), Hap & Leonard (2016-2018), The Affair (2014-2019), and Nurse Jackie (2009-2015). The collection is government produced by Sylvia, Chastain, Andrew Lazar (Persuasion), Josh Brolin, David Glasser (Yellowstone), David Hutkin (My Big Fat Greek Wedding), Bob Yari (Yellowstone), and Bryan Goluboff (The Basketball Diaries). The complete collection is directed by Australian director John Hillcoat, who’s finest recognized for steering the critically acclaimed 2011 movie, Lawless, and the Black Mirror episode “Crocodile” from Season 4. The collection is written by Sylvia, Sheri Holman (Longmire, Filthy Rich), Goluboff, Becky Mode (Smash), and Lindsey Villarreal (Resident Evil).