Limited series The Good Lord Bird not a 'white saviour' account of slavery, says Ethan Hawke
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The Good Lord Bird is based on the 2013 award-winning semi-historical novel of the same name by James McBride.
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LOS ANGELES - Movie star Ethan Hawke takes to the small screen for The Good Lord Bird, a period drama in which he plays American abolitionist John Brown, a white man who fought to end slavery in the 19th century.
But the Training Day (2001) and Dead Poets Society (1989) actor promises that the limited series will not offer a "white saviour" account of Brown's role in the American Civil War.
