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Tobias Menzies
Newsweek US
|March 29 - April 05, 2024 (Double Issue)
HOW MUCH DO WE REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE assassination of President Abraham Lincoln? That's a question Tobias Menzies hopes to answer in Apple TV+'s Manhunt (March 15).
"The thing that really struck me was the newness of the nation, that it wasn't really all knitted together properly, it was still so raw." Menzies plays Edwin Stanton, the U.S. Secretary of War under Lincoln, as he leads the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth. As a Brit, Menzies says "it's not without its trepidation to take on these important figures in your country's history," but that he hopes "to bring enough insight, and maybe some of that is about being an outsider." The show, which leans "toward the conspiracy political, crime thriller sort of genre," is also surprisingly timely. "The political and physical reality of the United States is a sort o
This story is from the March 29 - April 05, 2024 (Double Issue) edition of Newsweek US.
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