In The Good Lord Bird, the seven part Showtime series adapted from James McBride's 2013 National Book Award winning novel. William also states that the public makes a big deal of acting as if it's the celebration of the individual. And nowhere in your work is that more evident than in your playing abolitionist John Brown. In watching this performance there seemed to be so much confidence in your embodying this character,. Like your effortless kind of confidence in disappearing as Ethan Hawke.