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30.06.2022 - 23:43 / variety.com
Carson Burton True crime is all the craze on the small screen. Now, “Black Bird” is looking to shake things up.The series, starring Taron Egerton and Paul Walter Hauser, aims to play mind games with its audience, pitting a high school football star against a suspected serial killer. For Egerton, the show is more than just an interesting story of a horrendous crime, it’s a portrait of masculinity and how decisions made by men “fuck up the world.”“You can watch it and learn something about what it means to be a human being,” Egerton told Variety at the Apple TV+ show’s red carpet premiere on Wednesday.
“I think this show examines the sort of darker aspects of humanity, but they still are humanity and valid nonetheless. If you want to get broad and wordy about it, then I suppose, you know, we live in a world where awful, awful, hideous decisions are made that fuck up the world. And they’re normally made by men who think they know the lot.
And this show is full of them!” “Black Bird” follows the true story of Jimmy Keene, a young man sentenced to 10 years in a minimum security prison. Keene is given a choice: enter a maximum security prison and befriend suspected serial killer Larry Hall (Hauser), or stay where he is and serve his full sentence. He chooses the former, kicking off a tense, creepy psychological thriller.
Despite playing such a disturbed and dark character, Hauser said the role didn’t define him.“I think I probably did [take it home] unconsciously,” Hauser explained on Wednesday night at the Regency Bruin Theatre in Westwood, Calif. “I actually get annoyed when actors are like, ‘I played this role and it was so taxing that I was messed up for 12 years.’ It’s like, dude, chill out. It’s acting.
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Black Bird as his “most fully realised” working relationship ever with another cast member.The actor plays Liotta’s on-screen son, James Keene, in the Apple TV+ series, based on the autobiographical novel In With The Devil: A Fallen Hero, A Serial Killer, And A Dangerous Bargain For Redemption by Keene and Hillel Levin.The series marks Liotta’s final TV appearance following his death aged 67 in May. Speaking to RadioTimes.com, Egerton is “quite emotional” about recalling their time together on set.“We just clicked and we were very open and frank and candid with each other,” he said.
Paul Walter Hauser (“Richard Jewell”) is also a movie buff — so it’s no surprise that he describes his Emmy-worthy turn as “Black Bird” serial killer Larry Hall in cinematic terms — including Hall’s “Vincent D’Onofrio in ‘Full Metal Jacket’ stare.”“I’d say for my process … is that if I treated [the role] some other way it takes the humanity out of it and I’m kind of leaning into this tendency to overact,” Hauser, 35, told The Post. “So rather than be like, ‘Wow, I’m playing a serial killer so I better get ready’ … [Hall] was a human before he was a murderer, before he was a rapist, so you don’t want to play a killer like a killer.
Apple TV+.The six-episode drama, adapted from James Keene’s 2010 book, “In With The Devil,” revolves around Keene (Taron Egerton, “Rocket Man”), a charismatic, armed-to-the-teeth Chicago drug dealer and son of an ex-cop (Ray Liotta in his final role) who, in 1996, is busted and sentenced to 10 years in prison.Shortly thereafter, he’s offered a deal: transfer to a maximum-security prison in Missouri and befriend high-talking, mutton-chopped serial killer Larry Hall (Paul Walter Hauser, “Richard Jewell”). If he can elicit a confession from the next-level-creepy Hall, who’s suspected in the murders of at least 14 young girls, Keene’s sentence will be commuted.
Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticTaron Egerton is at the center of Apple’s new drama “Black Bird,” a show that asks him, foremost, to be a reactive force. Tangled in the prison system after his plan to plead out for a short narcotics-charge sentence blows up, Egerton’s Jimmy Keene is offered the opportunity to get out.
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Showing their support. Ray Liotta’s daughter Karsen Liotta and fiancée Jacy Nittolo attended the premiere of one of his most recent projects, Black Bird, to honor the late actor.
Ray Liotta’s two leading ladies attended the premiere in his honor. On Wednesday, the late actor’s fiancée, Jacy Nittolo, and his daughter, Karsen Liotta, walked the red carpet together at the premiere of the Apple TV+ series in Los Angeles. Karsen, 23, wore a black dress with silver lining across the bottom, while Jacy sported a black jumpsuit.
Anyone who has so much as turned on a television this year can tell you there is too much true crime. The genre has reached a saturation point: the stories are becoming thinner and are being repeated in different forms until they feel threadbare.
Ray Liotta's co-stars on his final completed project,, are sharing their memories of the late actor. ET's Will Marfuggi spoke with the stars of the new Apple TV+ drama series on the carpet at the show's premiere in Los Angeles on Wednesday, and they opened up about their memories of the celebrated actor.Taron Egerton, who stars in the series as a convicted criminal serving time in prison, recalled sharing scenes with Liotta, who plays his father.The 32-year-old Welsh actor — who also served as an executive producer on the series — recalled Liotta's «passion» for the script and the on-screen relationship they shared in the show.«I just kind of fell in love with him immediately,» Egerton remembered. «We developed a very, very, very close connection, and I had a very special time filming those scenes. I'm very pleased with how they turned out.»The show, inspired by true events, tells the story of Jimmy Keene (played by Egerton), who is sentenced to 10 years in prison for various criminal activities, but then is given a fateful choice: Either he can stay in his minimum-security prison and serve the whole sentence or enter a maximum-security prison to befriend suspected serial killer Larry Hall (Paul Walter Houser), in exchange for a reduced sentence.Houser walked the red carpet wearing a T-shirt featuring Liotta's character from , and reflected on how big a fan he was of Liotta's amazing body of work.«So many great performances he left behind.
Ray Liotta‘s daughter Karsen Liotta and his fiancée, Jacy Nittolo, team up on the red carpet for the premiere of his final small screen role, Black Bird.
Taron Egerton is looking back on his special time working with the late Ray Liotta on the new Apple TV+ series “Black Bird”.
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Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentU.S. actor David Dastmalchian (“Dune,” “The Suicide Squad”) is attached to star as the host of a late-night talk show that goes horribly wrong in upcoming indie chiller “Late Night With the Devil,” which is currently shooting in Australia.Directed by Australian writing-directing duo Colin and Cameron Cairnes (“100 Bloody Acres,” “Scare Campaign”), “Late Night” is the second title spawned by a multi-picture deal between low-budget U.S.
Ray Liotta’s fiancée is remembering the late actor.