Geoffrey Rush’s new role breaks the rules of time and space

Much beloved Australian actor Geoffrey Rush has played pirates, musicians, lovers, and even a pelican for the animated film Finding Nemo. 

His next role has the science and history buff’s tongues wagging like that famous imaged of Albert Einstien because Rush’s next role is that of the scientific genius Albert Einstein.

Rush will play the older Einstien in the first original program from National Geographic entitled Genius.  The series will follow Einstien from a young age, to his days as a patten clerk, to becoming one of the most influential people in science.  The show was produced, and the first episode directed, but multi-award winning director Ron Howard. National Geographic’s official synopsis of the show is, “Living and teaching in Princeton, New Jersey, Einstein continues to be besieged on all sides. His fractious relationship with his children and grandchildren weighs on him, he ends up in bed with Russian spy Margarita Konenkova (Ania Bukstein, Game of Thrones) and he must cope with J. Edgar Hoover’s (T.R. Knight, Grey’s Anatomy) personal vendetta to bring him down. He also faces possibly his biggest challenge ever: the pressure to set aside his lifelong pacifism in the hopes of stopping Hitler’s conquest of Europe.”

Today, the network released the first four minutes starring Geoffrey Rush.

Will you be watching the series when it debuts next month?  What is your favourite role of Geoffrey Rush?