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Tim Robbins will be starring in the adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s The Power opposite Leslie Mann.

According to Deadline, he will play Daniel Dandon, the self-righteous and self-important Republican governor of Washington state and constant thorn in the side of Margot Cleary-Lopez (Mann), the Democratic mayor of Seattle. Rainn Wilson had been cast, but the COVID-19 pandemic delayed shooting, and he’s no longer available.

Alderman led the all-female writers’ room for the first season of the show, which posits a world where suddenly, and without warning, all teenage girls in the world develop the power to electrocute people at will.