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October 07, 2022

FOR COLIN HANKS, PLAYING BOB BROBERG, THE FATHER OF A GIRL abducted twice by the same man, in A Friend of the Family (Peacock, October 6), was an "exercise in going completely 100 percent out of my comfort zone."

- H. Alan Scott

Colin Hanks

Based on the true story of Jan Broberg, who also produced the limited series, the show lays out in heavy and disturbing detail how the Broberg family, starting in 1972, fell prey to the predatory actions of Robert "B" Berchtold (played by Jake Lacy). "There's a lot of stuff that Bob did that is unfortunate and questionable. So I just did everything I could to try and explain why Bob made all those decisions." What makes this story unique is how "B" used Bob and his wife's (played by Anna Paquin) Mormonism against them. Hanks says Bob was "very much a man conflicted on a number of levels," but that shouldn't stop viewers from empathizing with him. "You don't

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