That makes him more approachable,” Thomas said. He tries to do the right thing, but doesn’t get it quite right. “He’s forced to interrogate his idealism, his sense of community and all his assumptions. While Lee portrayed Atticus as an “idealized father figure,” Sorkin takes the kind character “down off the pedestal” while giving him a dry, “country sense of humor,” Thomas said. More: Richard Thomas talks 'Waltons,' career ahead of 'Mockingbird' coming to Ohio Theatre What makes this play new and different?Īaron Sorkin’s drama is based on Harper Lee’s Pulitzer-winning 1960 novel (not the 1962 film) about a small-town Southern lawyer who defends a Black man accused of rape during the Jim Crow era of enforced segregation.“This is not the novel or movie, but an adaptation by a wonderful writer who has earned the right to tell any story he writes in his own way,” Thomas said. That’s not possible,” said Thomas, a prolific actor still best remembered as John-Boy on “The Waltons.”
“I’m not following in anyone’s footsteps.
Thomas stars in the national tour, which opens Tuesday at the Ohio Theatre. Richard Thomas isn’t daunted about playing Atticus Finch, even after Gregory Peck’s Oscar-winning and Jeff Daniels’ Tony-nominated performances of the iconic role in “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
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