‘Black Bird’: The Real Jimmy Keene Didn’t Experience Quite The Same Metamorphosis As Apple TV+ Version, Says Taron Egerton – Contenders TV
deadline.comIn Black Bird, Apple TV’s dramatic take on the true crime memoir about a suspected serial killer Larry Hall, star Taron Egerton admits that his portrayal of FBI informant Jimmy Keene differs from the real-life person who helped authorities to find Hall’s victims.
The psychological thriller actually zeroes in on Jimmy’s evolution as a former high school football hero-turned-drug dealer who’s sent to prison to elicit a confession from Hall.
The six-parter from Dennis Lehane dropped on Apple last summer. “Dennis’ angle on the show was to take a guy from A to B — A being a lack of self awareness in terms of having a moral code, an attitude toward to women, to B, [a person] who has discovered some humanity and some responsibility to everyone around him,” explained Edgerton on Sunday during Deadline’s Contenders TV event. “He does grow, but it costs him dearly.
I think in terms of the real Jimmy, I think it was harrowing and incredibility difficult. I don’t know if it was quite as much as a metamorphosis for him.
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