Even though we've followed Ethan Hawke's multi-decade journey from baby-faced pretty boy of Explorers and Dead Poets Society to more seasoned Oscar-nominated leading man, there's something both surprising and poignant about how frequently his character in Showtime's limited series The Good Lord Bird is referred to as "the old man." Nearing his 50th birthday, Hawke is, in fact, a decade younger than the man he’s playing in this limited series: abolitionist John Brown, whose ill-fated 1859 raid on the armory at Harpers Ferry helped push the country to the brink of the Civil War.
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