Jeremy Robust, who shot to stardom taking part in the scheming Kendall Roy within the HBO phenomenon “Succession,” gained his first Tony Award for enjoying Dr. Thomas Stockmann in Amy Herzog’s adaptation of the Ibsen drama “An Enemy of the Folks.”
The character, a medical officer who discovers that his city’s beloved spa is dangerously polluted, finds himself in a thankless place: When he speaks the reality, the townspeople activate him.
It’s a task that has been bodily demanding for Robust, 45, a well-known methodology actor — buckets of ice cubes are dumped on his physique every night time, and at one level, he turns into so incensed that he tears his shirt off, buttons flying each which manner. (In an interview with The New York Instances in April, he likened taking part in the position to “strolling the plank,” “summiting Everest” and “strolling a fantastic tightrope over an abyss.”)
The Instances’s chief theater critic, Jesse Inexperienced, wrote that Robust, who gained an Emmy award for his work on “Succession,” delivers a “spectacularly correct but non-showy” efficiency that seems to have been modeled on Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the infectious illness professional. That encompasses, Inexperienced wrote, “not simply his messianic religion in science but in addition his barely mastered disdain, social weirdness and haircut.”
Although Robust established mainstream success on the display screen, he spent his early profession within the theater. His first Broadway position was taking part in an bold ethical chameleon reverse Frank Langella in “A Man for All Seasons” in 2008. “Enemy” is the primary time he has returned to the stage in additional than a decade.
“It felt needed,” he instructed The Instances in April. “The play felt like a summons.”
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