Tony Winner Cherry Jones & Emmy Winner Bradley Whitford Join Hank Williams Biopic I Saw the Light

Tony winner Cherry Jones and stage and screen star Bradley Whitford have signed on to appear in the Hank Williams biopic I Saw the Light. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jones will play Lillie, Williams’ mother, and Whitford will play Nashville music publisher Fred Rose. They join Tom Hiddleston, who will play the music icon, and Elizabeth Olsen as his wife, Audrey Mae Williams.

Jones took home Tony Awards for her performances in Doubt and The Heiress. She was also nominated for Our Country’s Good, A Moon for the Misbegotten and her most recent Broadway appearance: The Glass Menagerie. An Emmy winner for his performance as Josh Lyman in The West Wing, Whitford has appeared on Broadway in A Few Good Men and Boeing-Boeing.

The film will explore the life of the country singer, from his upbringing in southern Alabama, to his success with such hits as “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” “Love Sick Blues” and “Move It On Over,” to his death at the age of 29 in 1952.

I Saw the Light, scheduled to premiere next year, is currently filming in Louisiana. The cast will also include Wrenn Schmidt and Broadway alums David Krumholtz, Josh Pais and James DuMont.