Is This A Future President?

Broadway star Ben Platt on playing an ambitious student and having Gwyneth Paltrow as his mum

- Nick Cannon

Californian high-school student Payton Hobart is determined to become US President. And, as we’ll see in Netflix’s outrageous new comedy drama The Politician, he will do just about anything on his quest to achieve his ambition…

‘Payton is an aspiring politician to his core but he has trouble telling the difference between authenticity and fakeness,’ says American film and theatre star Ben Platt, 25, who plays him. ‘He struggles with empathy and grapples with whether he’s a sociopath.’