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Chris Messina & Damian Lewis Join WWII Movie ‘Pressure’ As Irving P. Krick & Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery; Filming Underway In UK


Damian Lewis will play legendary British Field Marshall Montgomery.

Joining Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser and Kerry Condon in the blue chip cast are Chris Messina( Sharp Objects) as U.S. meteorologist Irving P. Krick and Golden Globe and Emmy winner Damian Lewis( Billions) as legendary British Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery. The true story will see All of Us Strangers and Ripley star Scott play Britain’s Chief Meteorological Officer James Stagg, whose job it was to inform Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower (Fraser) of weather conditions that would make or break their Normandy invasion. “With only his trusted aide Captain Kay Summersby (Kerry Condon) to confide in, and haunted by a catastrophic D-Day rehearsal, the final decision rests with Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower (Fraser).

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