‘Black Bird’ Cast Remembers Co-Star Ray Liotta at Premiere: ‘He Meant Everything to Us’
variety.comCarson 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.
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