Ethan Hawke goes bold in 'Good Lord Bird,' adding humor to an anti-slavery story

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“The show is playful about a subject matter you’re not usually allowed to be playful about'

), is himself a running sight gag throughout: Having misheard his name, Brown outfits him in a woman’s dress, a gender assignment that Little Onion — the nickname Brown bestows upon him — accepts, albeit without enthusiasm.

As it happens, Blum didn’t get to read the glowing reviews until long after he thought he would. Having completed production before the pandemic, “The Good Lord Bird” was originally scheduled to premiere in February. It was then moved to early August. But Black Lives Matter protests continued to be staged, and George Floyd-inspired street art was showing up on walls around the world. Showtime then chose to move “The Good Lord Bird” to October.For Hawke, the intervening months were nail-biters.

“I kind of imagined the perfect actor for this part would be Robert Duvall. I loved the way he talked in ‘Apocalypse Now,’” says Hawke, who ended up channeling his gruff, straight-talking civil rights activist grandfather, Howard L. Green. “Sometimes you just find yourself in the pocket of the character. I enjoyed the hell out of it.”

 

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