The real question for me is if there was somebody else involved, and that honestly, I can not say. But of course, history … He gets shot and we’ll never fully know. If it was anybody else but Kennedy, he would have been convicted. There’s so much evidence out there supporting this. Where do you fall on that?įrom the research that I’ve done, I truly believe Lee is a man very capable of having taken the shot and been the man to have murdered Kennedy. There are so many conspiracy theories about the assassination. We use historical moments but there’s also a lot of movement throughout that, so you have to assimilate what you know and put as much history into these narratives as possible. One of the tricky things is that you learn so much about a person and you come to a narrative, essentially. I came into the project, after all this that I had done for numerous hours, every day, so by the time I got there, I was very sure of who I was being, who I was playing, who Lee was to me. I got to read and study and interpret away for a long period of time, which is great. How did you approach Lee as a character from this novel versus the real person? Knight to Face Off With James Franco in Hulu's '11/22/63' Kennedy and Khrushchev, Fidel Castro and all that stuff.Īlso Read: 'Grey's Anatomy' Alum T.R. As for the specifics on Kennedy and on the war and Lee and that period, coming into this project, there was a huge amount of work in researching and understanding that period. But I knew who Lee was and I knew who Kennedy was and I knew about the assassination. It’s part of the general consciousness but it’s not something that’s taught at school, we don’t go into American history. The JFK assassination is such a big part of American history but growing up in Australia, how much did you know about it? I’m looking forward to being able to play more roles like this down the line. It’s something I’ve thought about for a very long time, and it’s a great honor to be a part of that. Playing these very iconic American roles and telling these very iconic parable American stories from America. I couldn’t have asked for a better project to begin a career in America. But I got a call randomly one day saying they were offering me the part.Īlso Read: James Franco Goes Back in Time to Stop JFK Assassination in '11/22/63' Teaser (Video) Then I didn’t hear anything for a good month, and I just assumed it didn’t work out, like so many different projects. I had two days of prep for the audition, then put a tape down with a friend, and sent it in.

I watched some newsreels and had a quick look at his bio, and instantly knew this would be an exceptional kind of role. I remember seeing JJ and James Franco‘s names, and when I saw it was for the character of Lee, I just went to work on that. TheWrap: How did you get involved with the project and what was the audition process like?ĭaniel Webber: It was just an audition that came through, as they all do, and it was a self-tape.

Below, he talked about how one self-made audition tape from his native Australia got him the role and how he prepared to play one of history’s most fascinating characters. Webber’s role in the miniseries opposite James Franco as a time-traveling high school teacher is his first in the United States. “There’s so much evidence out there supporting this.”Īlso Read: James Franco Is a Man Out of Time in '11/22/63' Teaser (Video) “From the research that I’ve done, I truly believe Lee is a man very capable of having taken the shot and been the man to have murdered Kennedy,” actor Daniel Webber told TheWrap. The man playing Lee Harvy Oswald, the assassin who took the fatal shot, doesn’t think there’s much to speculate about in terms of all the conspiracy theories that still haunt the event. Hulu’s “11.22.63” isn’t just an adaptation of a best-selling Stephen King novel, it also tackles one of US history’s biggest events: The assassination of John F.

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