Jason Blum and Ethan Hawke take to BlumFest to discuss the Showtime miniseries The Good Lord Bird. Hawke commends the show’s human identity theme on both race and gender in the Civil War era, where helping the enslaved was still against the law, and this will be a call to action for his character. This will result in violence coming from a man of religion.
The actor cites Get Out for its own theme on race. He says we need to sit in a room and discuss each other’s laughs and fears in order to understand ourselves. When the moderator brings up the political climate of 2020’s Black Lives Matter movement in relation to the show’s release, Hawke says it’s always important to discuss what is going on, no matter if people argue otherwise.
The first four episodes of The Good Lord Bird are available to watch on Showtime!
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