Taron Egerton on Black Bird and Ray Liotta s Amazing Performance
With Dennis Lehanes (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone) Black Bird starting to stream on Apple TV+ tomorrow, I recently spoke with Taron Egerton about making the fantastic new series. Inspired by the truecrime memoir In With The Devil: A Fallen Hero, A Serial Killer, and A Dangerous Bargain for Redemption by authors James Keene and Hillel Levin, Black Bird follows a convicted felon (Egerton) who is given the chance to reduce his 10year sentence by entering a maximumsecurity prison for the criminally insane and befriending a suspected serial killer (Paul Walter Hauser). If he can manage to find out where the bodies are buried, he can have his sentence commuted. But if anything happens in the maximumsecurity prison, hes on his own. Black Bird also stars Sepideh Moafi, Greg Kinnear, and a phenomenal Ray Liotta, who plays Egertons father. During the interview, Egerton talked about what drew him to the material, why he loved Dennis Lehanes writing, what it was like working with Ray Liotta and watching h
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