Hi all! This is long overdue, but remaining screen captures, episodes stills and promotional images of Taron as Jimmy Keene have been added to the gallery. If you haven’t watched it already, you can watch on Apple TV+. Enjoy!
Episode 4 “WhatsHerName”
Episode 5 “The Place I Lie”
Episode 6 “You Promised”
Promotionals
Screencaptures and episode stills from the third episode of Black Bird titled “Hand to Mouth”.
nytimes.com -The 32-year-old plays an imprisoned drug dealer facing an unusual choice in the Apple TV+ series, written by Dennis Lehane.
Taron Egerton channeled a pop god in the Elton John biopic âRocketman,â winning raves â and a Golden Globe â for his portrayal of how a shy piano prodigy blossomed into an international superstar.
But in his latest role, as a convicted drug dealer in the new Apple TV+ drama âBlack Bird,â he had no outlandish sunglasses or feather boas to cast off when shooting wrapped each day. For âBlack Bird,â which is based on a true story, he had to cast off something darker: the confessions of Larry Hall, a man convicted in connection with one girlâs death who was suspected to have kidnapped, raped and killed many more.
âAs much as it was a great experience creatively, there were days where I went home feeling like, I donât really want to listen to this stuff anymore,â Egerton, whose characterâs task is to elicit those confessions, said in a recent video call from his London kitchen.
Egerton, 32, who has lent his soulful tenor voice to characters both flamboyant (John) and furry (the mountain gorilla Johnny in the animated musical âSingâ), could have taken his pick of just about any musical role after âRocketman.â And then there are those chiseled good looks and piercing green eyes, which seem to beg for a cape and spandex.
Instead, he wanted his next major on-camera role to be one that showed the world he was more than a song-and-dance man.
In With the Devil has been renamed to Black Bird. Apple released 2 new images of Taron as James Keene. Read below for more information on the show and when you can watch it!
Variety.Com – âBlack Bird,â a limited series starring Taron Egerton and Paul Walter Hauser, will premiere on Apple TV Plus this July 8, the streamer announced Thursday.
Based on James Keene and Hillel Levinâs true crime memoir âIn With The Devil: A Fallen Hero, A Serial Killer, and A Dangerous Bargain for Redemption,â âBlack Birdâ stars Egerton as Keene, a police officerâs son who is sentenced to 10 years in a minimum security prison for drug dealing. While serving his sentence, he is offered a chance for early parole, on the condition that he move to a prison for the criminally insane and befriend serial killer Larry Hall (Hauser). Keene reluctantly agrees to the unusual case, and develops a complicated relationship with Hall as he attempts to discover the truth behind the murders the convict is suspected of committing. In addition to Egerton and Hauser, the series also stars Sepideh Moafi, Greg Kinnear and Ray Liotta.
âBlack Birdâ will premiere the first two episodes on July 8, followed by new episodes every Friday. The limited series will run for six episodes.
Variety.com – Apple is nearing an order for the limited series âIn with the Devil,â with Taron Egerton and Paul Walter Hauser onboard to star, Variety has learned.
The six-episode series would be based on the 2010 novel âIn With The Devil: A Fallen Hero, A Serial Killer, and A Dangerous Bargain for Redemptionâ by James Keene and Hillel Levin. The book tells the story of Keeneâs real life when he was sentenced to prison but offered his freedom in exchange for coaxing a confession out of a fellow inmate, a suspected serial killer.
The series is described as being told through the lens of an intimate relationship between two prisoners, exploring the lengths that people will go to in order to seek redemption, if true absolution is ever really possible, and if so, at what costs. Egerton would star in the Keene role.
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