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Ethan Hawke on Playing a Real-Life Abolitionist in 'Good Lord Bird': "You Can't Underplay John Brown"

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Ethan Hawke has earned Oscar noms for both his acting (Training Day, Boyhood) and writing (Before Sunset, Before Midnight), and as a director has helmed three features and a documentary.

Hawke used that experience in front of and behind the camera to take on three roles at once — co-creator, executive producer and series lead — for his latest passion project, Showtime's The Good Lord Bird, an adaptation of James McBride's award-winning novel.

The limited series stars Hawke as the infamous abolitionist John Brown, whose 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, fueled the flames of the Civil War.

Narrated by Henry Shackleford (Joshua Caleb Johnson), an enslaved teenager who disguises himself as a girl and joins Brown's roving army (and whom.

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