""House of Cards," new political thriller starring Kevin Spacey, is coming to Netflix on Friday, POLITICO’s Kevin Cirilli reports:
Spacey stars as the fictional House Majority Whip Francis Underwood (D-S.C.), who is passed over for becoming secretary of state, which he was ensured he was a shoo-in for. The premise is set: Underwood wants revenge.
Spacey’s character often speaks to the viewer. It’s a device that not only gives viewers a seat at politicos’ backroom poker tables — they’re holding the cards with him, complicit in his ruthless, cutthroat schemes.
“It feels kind of delicious to bring your audience in as co-conspirators,” Spacey said.
So who’d they use as inspiration? [Screenwriter Beau] Willimon said Spacey’s character is based on several prominent politicians.
“He’s a ruthless politician, the ilk of Richard III and LBJ. A little bit of Dick Cheney, all sort of wrapped into one,” Willimon said. “Maybe a little Hannibal Lecter, too. He’s just this deliciously semi-sociopathic guy who — with his equally ambitious wife, Claire, played by Robin Wright — is going to stop at nothing to climb his way up the ladder.”
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