Patton Oswalt on why Apple TV+'s Abraham Lincoln assassination drama Manhunt is “weirdly comforting”

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The Emmy-winning actor, best known for voicing Remy in Ratatouille, plays a detective in hot pursuit of actor-turned-assassin John Wilkes Booth.

RatatouilleNew: You can now listen to articles.If your knowledge about the President Abraham Lincoln assassination begins and ends with his killer John Wilkes Booth, then the Apple TV+ seriesDetective Lafayette Baker’s Anthony Boyle), a theatre actor-turned-assassin-turned-poster-child-for-the-failed Confederacy.

“I don’t know if I was there to add levity, but I certainly was there to add a level of humanity and absurdity,” said Patton. “I think probably drove a lot of events and aspects of history: people were in it for the money. That’s a very real thing, and I’m glad that they acknowledged that and focused on that.”

That said, he relished filming one scene where he tore up the symbol of hate, oppression and division that’s the Confederate flag.feels disturbingly contemporary: it’s difficult not to draw similarities between the events depicted in the series and what’s going on in the contemporary political scene , notably the January 6 US Capitol attack.

 

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