Jeff Daniels on canceled ‘American Rust’ getting rescued: ‘We got slapped around’
nypost.comrusty. After Season 1 aired on Showtime, the Emmy-winning actor stars again in “American Rust,” which premieres its second season March 28 on Prime Video. “I got dragged to a book reading in 2004 or something like that.
And it was some debut novel by an author named Philipp Meyer,” Daniels, 69, told The Post, referring to the titular novel that the show is based on. “Then, when I got in a position where I could do whatever I wanted to do, post-‘The Newsroom,’ I remembered this book.
So, we went after it and got it set up at Showtime. I knew this guy. Living in the Midwest, I knew [my character] Del Harris.”“American Rust” is set in Buell, a withering Rust Belt town in Pennsylvania with few prospects for its citizens.
Season 1 followed Del Harris (Daniels), the chief of police who investigated as the son of Grace (Maura Tierney, “The Affair”), the woman he loved, was accused of murder.
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