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Podcast: The Parting Shot with H. Alan Scott
Episode: Jason Clarke on Playing Alex Murdaugh: 'I'm Not Going to Play a Bad Guy'
Description: To play Alex Murdaugh, Jason Clarke wasn’t going to turn the man into a caricature, telling producers, “I’m not going to play a bad guy here,” Clarke told Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott. Instead, Clarke focused on the “tragedy of Roman proportions” in Hulu’s ‘Murdaugh: Death in the Family,’ based on the true story of a South Carolina man convicted in 2023 of murdering his wife and son. “We’re not here to sensationalize it or even to replay it. We’re there to open it up.” Clarke has two other big projects this year. The first is the Apple TV+ series ‘The...