Brendan Fraser, Andrew Scott and Damian Lewis brought Pressure, the drama of the weather forecast behind D-Day, to Leicester Square for its European premiere.
Andrew Scott, Moriarty in Sherlock and the priest in Fleabag, led the European premiere of Pressure at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in the West End on Tuesday 1 September 2026. Brendan Fraser and Damian Lewis joined him for the Second World War drama.
Scott was born in Dublin in 1976 and left a drama degree at Trinity College Dublin after six months to join the Abbey Theatre. All of Us Strangers and Ripley followed his television work.
Fraser was born in Indianapolis in 1968 to Canadian parents and trained in Seattle. He found fame in The Mummy and won the Academy Award for Best Actor for The Whale.
The film covers the days before the Normandy landings in June 1944. At Southwick House, Eisenhower, played by Fraser, needs a forecast from the meteorologist James Stagg, played by Scott, before he can commit the invasion fleet. An American meteorologist, played by Chris Messina, disputes it.
Anthony Maras, who made Hotel Mumbai, directed from his screenplay with David Haig, based on Haig’s 2014 stage play. StudioCanal released the film in British cinemas days later.
Lewis plays General Montgomery, and Kerry Condon plays Kay Summersby, Eisenhower’s secretary and confidante.