Before he was cast as John Wilkes Booth in Apple TV+'s miniseries 'Manhunt,' actor Anthony Boyle didn't know much about the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, aside what he learned on 'The Simpsons.'
Almost 159 years after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, the name of John Wilkes Booth still rings through history. At least here in America.
Even though he’s not American, playing the assassin of one of America’s greatest presidents was a challenge for Boyle. “And when he starts off at 15, he’s rambunctious,” Boyle said. “He’s going to fairs. He’s mooning people. He was a bit of a wayward lad. Then at about 19, he starts writing things like, ‘Someone insulted my sister, so I put a stick over his head and watched him bleed.’ And then by the time he’s 25, he’s writing things like, ‘The Black man is enslaving the white man in America.’ So you’ve got, through these letters, this, just, descent into this madness. Into this racist ideology.
There’s a lot of interesting material, from a look at why Johnson is among the worst presidents in American history to another historical revision on Mudd. In “Manhunt,” Mudd knew he was treating Booth, who broke his leg when he leaped to the stage after shooting Lincoln. But, regardless, Mudd was a slave owner who was a terrible human being.
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