The cast, uniformly superb, includes Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln, Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens, Hal Holbrook as Lincoln adviser Preston Blair, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Robert Todd Lincoln, David Strathairn as William Seward and James Spader as political operative W.N.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt will take on the role of Lincoln's eldest son Robert Todd Lincoln and Tommy Lee Jones will play Thaddeus Stevens, a Republican leader and congressman from Pennsylvania.