Michael Douglas, who stars as the titular American founding father in “Franklin,” credits shows such as “Bridgerton” with igniting a demand for historical period series.Apple TV+’s eight-part series on Benjamin Franklin does a bang-up job of depicting chess-like political maneuvering and landmark bargaining sessions that helped shape the course of history.
Douglas adds another quiver to his impressive acting cap as the nimble-witted, immensely quotable inventor, author, publisher and founding father. “Franklin” hones in on how the publisher of the annual “Poor Richard’s Alamanack” voyaged to France in 1776 where he served as the pivotal dealmaker who shrewdly convinced France to join the Colonies’ fight for independence against the British.
The final episode of this intelligently scripted series from screenwriters Kirk Ellis and Howard Korder particularly coalesces around that theme. Douglas admits he was in the dark about the critical role that Franklin played in wooing France to help fund, arm and fight for the fledgling United States’ freedom. Franklin stayed in France for eight years and was joined part of that time by the more stern John Adams , with whom he sparred often, but who also played an instrumental role in making the Treaty of Paris of 1783 happen.
Douglas was joined in this interview by co-star Noah Jupe who portrays Franklin’s ambitious grandson Temple in the miniseries. He knew zip about Franklin. Douglas grew up as the son of the late Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas. The actor turned heads and won hearts — especially in the Bay Area — as homicide inspector Steve Keller in the hit 1972-77 series “The Streets of San Francisco.” His career caught fire from there. But it was as producer on 1975’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” with Jack Nicholson and the late Louise Fletcher, that nabbed him his first of two Oscars — as a producer.
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