This isn't a rerun of your grandfather's 'Perry Mason' from the '60s. No, HBO's reboot of the legal drama is 'a very dark Perry Mason,' says Matthew Rhys, who stars as the seamy, slovenly private eye in 1932 LA.
Perry Mason in the new HBO reboot of the legal drama based on Erle Stanley Gardner's detective stories."To my mind, he makes a good private investigator because he doesn't fit in in any way," Rhys says.Perry Mason"Why would you? How can you?" says Rhys, who stars in the new HBO show.from the 1960s. He's not a sharply creased L.A. defense lawyer, with a voice that booms in wood-paneled courtrooms.The series is based on Erle Stanley Gardner's detective stories.
The way they set Mason within that — that he was this kind of leftover of a pioneer family that's inherited this land with this encroaching monster of modernity that is the new L.A. — and he doesn't quite fit in in a number of respects.The American hard-boiled [detective] — especially 1930s private eye — is something so exotic to me that I felt there was a number of times when I was flicking a cigarette or, you know, adjusting my fedora and trying not impersonate Humphrey Bogart.
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