i initially balked at the matthew broderick suggestion but i think you're exactly right: someone who can play just the right sort of naivete/ingenuousness without coming off cluck-stupid. someone you have confidence in but also sorta feel sorry for.
he's the right sort of maladroit for the role (though goodness, it's hard to believe he's fifteen years too old ~ where does the time go?).
re: Hanty's letter books ~ we shall see what there is to see! i don't anticipate anything earth-shattering, but i've lost confidence in other historians saying that there's nothing of interest in there. i feel the need to see for myself.
p.s. i feel compelled to tell you that i found out that Poppet's father buillt and owned the Moravian Woolen Mill where all the chitlins worked and it was possibly sold/dispersed/something when he died in 1860, then burned down in 1862. it was later rebuilt, but the family no longer owned it.
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i initially balked at the matthew broderick suggestion but i think you're exactly right: someone who can play just the right sort of naivete/ingenuousness without coming off cluck-stupid. someone you have confidence in but also sorta feel sorry for.
he's the right sort of maladroit for the role (though goodness, it's hard to believe he's fifteen years too old ~ where does the time go?).
re: Hanty's letter books ~ we shall see what there is to see! i don't anticipate anything earth-shattering, but i've lost confidence in other historians saying that there's nothing of interest in there. i feel the need to see for myself.
p.s. i feel compelled to tell you that i found out that Poppet's father buillt and owned the Moravian Woolen Mill where all the chitlins worked and it was possibly sold/dispersed/something when he died in 1860, then burned down in 1862. it was later rebuilt, but the family no longer owned it.