Ethan Hawke is Abolitionist John Brown in This Wild Trailer For Showtime's THE GOOD LORD BIRD
Ethan Hawke stars in an upcoming Showtime limited-series The Good Lord Bird. The actor plays abolitionist John Brown during Bleeding Kansas, which was “a time when the state was a battleground between pro- and anti-slavery forces.” This looks like one hell of an intense, wild, and surprisingly funny series!
This is really unlike any role we’ve ever seen Hawke take on before and it might actually be one of the best characters he’s played! He unhinges himself for this role, goes a little crazy, and I love it! He also created, wrote, and produced the series!
The series also stars Daveed Diggs as Frederick Douglas, Ellar Coltrane, who co-starred with Hawke in Boyhood, and Hawke’s real-life daughter Maya Hawke playing John Brown’s daughter. Here’s the synopsis:
The Good Lord Bird’ is told from the point of view of Onion (Joshua Caleb Johnson), a fictional enslaved boy who becomes a member of Brown’s motley family of abolitionist soldiers during Bleeding Kansas — a time when the state was a battleground between pro- and anti-slavery forces — and eventually finds himself participating in the famous 1859 raid on the U.S. Armory at Harpers Ferry. Brown’s raid failed to initiate the slave revolt he intended, but it was the event that started the Civil War. ‘The Good Lord Bird’ weaves a humorous, dramatic and historical tapestry of Antebellum America, spotlighting the complicated and ever-changing racial, religious and gender roles that make up the American identity.
The Good Lord Bird consists of seven episodes and it premieres on Showtime on August 9.
