EXCLUSIVE: John Hawkes (True Detective: Evening Nation) has joined the solid of Prime Video‘s graphic novel collection, Legal, in a recurring function. He joins the beforehand introduced solid of Charlie Hunnam, Adria Arjona, Richard Jenkins, Kadeem Hardison, Logan Browning, Pat Healy and Taylor Selé.
Legal is an interlocking universe of crime tales primarily based on the multi-Eisner Award-winning graphic novel collection created by Brubaker and Sean Phillips.
Hawkes has been solid as ‘Sebastian Hyde,’ a tough man who’s six months out from a stroke, and now walks with a cane. As soon as the largest shark within the shark tank, Hyde is now displaying his humanity a bit — possibly a bit an excessive amount of. The proprietor of a playing membership, the type of man whose identify is accompanied by concern, Hyde might be each amused by somebody one minute, and a ruthless enforcer the subsequent.
As Deadline beforehand revealed solely, Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden are confirmed to direct the primary 4 episodes. Brubaker will co-showrun with crime fiction writer Jordan Harper. Brubaker and Harper EP alongside Sean Phillips, Sarah Carbiener and Philipp Barnett. Legendary Tv will even function an government producer. The collection is produced by Amazon MGM Studios.
Hawkes can at the moment be seen within the fourth season of True Detective from Issa Lopez and starring Jodie Foster. Along with performing, he additionally wrote an authentic music that he carried out on the present. Earlier tasks embrace the indie movie The Peanut Butter Falcon, Nicholas Winding Refn’s crime drama Too Previous to Die Younger; the Deadwood reunion film reprising his function of ‘Sol Star and Three Billboards Exterior Ebbing, Missouri.
For his portrayal of the real-life poet, ‘Mark O’Brien’ in The Periods, Hawkes received Finest Actor from the Impartial Spirit Awards and was nominated for a Golden Globe and Display screen Actors Guild Award. He earned an Impartial Spirit Award and an Academy Award nomination for Finest Supporting Actor for his efficiency as ‘Teardrop’ in Winter’s Bone.
Hawkes has additionally written and carried out music for TV and movies. Along with his music in True Detective: Evening Nation, he co-wrote a music with producer T-Bone Burnett for Peanut Butter Falcon; his music Bred and Buttered seems on the Winter’s Bone soundtrack and he composed and carried out Down with Mary for Too Late.
He’s represented by Progressive Artists, Thruline Leisure and Yorn, Levine et al.