“People often like to call him insane,” said Ethan Hawke today about John Brown, the American abolitionist he plays in Showtime’s upcoming mini-series The Good Lord Bird. But the…
But there’s was certainly something more in James McBride’s National Book award-winning novel that spoke to the Oscar nominated actor, especially in his journey to bring the book to a wider audience.
Regarding Brown being misunderstood as a crazy person in history, Hawke said, “If you read his letters from prison before his was hung, he’s clearly not insane. He’s definitely sane. You might not like him or believe in his cause, but he was definitely sane. They were well written letters and they’re very persuasive.”In prepping for the role as the loud Brown, Hawke drew from his Texan grandfather’s persona. “He grew up on a pecan farm in East Texas. When he talked at you, he shouted at you.
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