With Dennis Lehane’s (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone) Black Bird starting to stream on Apple TV+ tomorrow, I recently spoke with Taron Egerton about making the fantastic new series. Inspired by the true-crime memoir In With The Devil: A Fallen Hero, A Serial Killer, and A Dangerous Bargain for Redemption by authors James Keene and Hillel Levin, Black Bird follows a convicted felon (Egerton) who is given the chance to reduce his 10-year sentence by entering a maximum-security prison for the criminally insane and befriending a suspected serial killer (Paul Walter Hauser). If he can manage to find out where the bodies are buried, he can have his sentence commuted. But if anything happens in the maximum-security prison, he’s on his own. Black Bird also stars Sepideh Moafi, Greg Kinnear, and a phenomenal Ray Liotta, who plays Egerton’s father.

During the interview, Egerton talked about what drew him to the material, why he loved Dennis Lehane’s writing, what it was like working with Ray Liotta and watching his performance up close, his interest in directing, and what he’s excited for audiences to see in the series.

Check out what Egerton had to say in the player above, or you can read our conversation below.

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