We interview Richard Thomas, who plays Atticus Finch in the acclaimed “To Kill a Mockingbird” play opening at Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco.
Those changes led to a legal battle during the development of the show, as the Lee estate charged that Sorkin’s work varied too greatly the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The lawsuit was eventually settled and the Bartlett Sher-directed “To Kill a Mockingbird” opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre on Dec. 13, 2018.
“It’s not intimidating,” he says. “You have to kind of forget about that at a certain point. You can’t play icons on stage. It’s not possible. Icons are wooden paintings of saints. You can only play human beings.” “He wrote this play before 2020,” Thomas says. “This play was written before George Floyd’s murder and before all this stuff that happened in 2020 in terms of getting down with our racial justice challenges. It’s amazing how prescient this adaptation was in terms of the lens through we are viewing these issues now.”“I think the first thing did was to get the white savior off the pedestal,” Thomas says. “He’s still a man who’s trying to do the right thing.
Beyond theater, Thomas has remained active in other acting realms. Notably, he appeared in the Emmy-winning Netflix series “Ozark,” where he played Nathan Davis — the father of Wendy Byrde .
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