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EXCLUSIVE: There will be a lot more of the brilliantly scary Richard Harrow on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire next year. Young British actor Jack Huston, who played the role in five episodes during the second half of the prohibition era drama’s first season, is joining the cast as a regular for Season 2. Harrow, a disfigured war veteran and former sharpshooter in the American army who has the left side of his face covered with a painted tin plate, got a second shot at life when Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt) hired him as a hit-man and bodyguard. Huston, who is part of an acting dynasty as the grandson of John Huston and nephew of Anjelica Huston, is coming into his own. In addition to getting the plum series regular role on Boardwalk Empire, he recently landed one of the leads in The Sopranos creator David Chase’s feature debut, a music-driven coming of age story set in 1960’s suburbia. In fact, it was Boardwalk Empire creator (and former Sopranos executive producer) Terence Winter who recommended Huston to his former boss Chase after seeing his work on Boardwalk Empire. Huston, whose credits include the feature Boogie Woogie and the ABC series Eastwick, is repped by UTA, the Collective and UK’s Ken McReddie Assoc.
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this guy has it.
This is seriously great news. Can’t wait for him to get more screen time. It’s a great part that he’s knocking out of the park.
This guy’s a revelation. The show was good before he showed up, but he helped it explode. More of him. And more of Michael Pitt in tight undershirts please.
LOVE his character on the show.
Best news ever. This guy is great!
Best character on the show.
best news ever he is fantastic as Richard Harrow
This is so great.
I was slow to get into Boardwalk Empire, but it slowly became my favorite show of the year, and a lot of the reason is Jack Huston.
At first, I thought maybe he’d be on that one episode with Pitt. Then he became part of the cast… and pretty much walked away with every scene he was in.
He’s the most original TV character I’ve seen in a very, very long time, and Huston’s performance is pitch-perfect.
Now that he’s a regular, I’m even more stoked for Season 2.
This guy deserves to be a big star… he’s brilliant.
This is the best news i’ve heard all day! SO happy! This guy brought an already great show to an amazing place. And the movie to boot…he’s on fire!
I agree this is great news. He is mesmerizing on the screen and his performance is nuanced. A new talent. Kelly MacDonald is also stunning as Margaret Schroeder. I am looking forward to the evolution of this show which had a strong season. It’s not TV, it’s HBO!!!
This guy is awesome.
Great news! And what a pedigree – Huston royalty lineage!
This news made my day! Now as long as gretchon mol is promoted…
This guy rocks the house. Best character ever.
The acting — specifically Kelly Macdonald, the three Michaels (Pitt, Shannon and Stuhlbarg), Jack Huston and the memorable performance of Erik Weiner — is the thing.
The series is tortured by numerous historical inaccuracies.
A little history – Al Capone went by his Italian Caponi surname when he and his brothers worked for John Torrio, who is inaccurately portrayed as a “dem and dose thug” when he was anything but that.
I know as much about Torrio as any biographer. John Torrio was an opera lover, a sharp dresser, extremely secretive, so intelligent that they called him “The Brain” and “The Fox” (he later created the syndicate). Frankie Yale (his real name was Frank Uale) had a strong Brooklyn accent and was actually responsible for arranging the meeting between Capone with Torrio — and Torrio moved Capone out of New York and brought him to Chicago.
Salvatore Luciana ran a whorehouse for many years in Brooklyn before he was brought up by Torrio. He owed everything to Torrio who honestly didn’t like him much.
In the whorehouse business, it was Torrio who implemented all the new ideas to bring in the money — “charity girls” (strippers that replaced the $2.00 prostitutes) and creating the “circus” (a pairing of two girls together which more than doubled their revenue in both Chicago and Brooklyn).
n fact, even the language of the day is wrong in Boardwalk Empire.
Torrio was also very much in love with his wife — an Irish redhead who was all piss and vinegar and whom he met on a little farm passing through on his way to buy a few politicians. She had NO IDEA who Torrio was, just that once their eyes locked, she knew she was his wife. And, she was one of the few – if not the only woman – who was told the true behind-the-scenes history by her husband when they moved to Italy.
All the way to the end of her life at restaurants — even when only close relatives were present — she had this endearing quirk. She would ALWAYS sit with her back to the wall. And before she died, she told the family history to a little boy and a little girl who would sit at her feet in awe and remembered every last word.
Wow.
You must be such a hit a parties.
Buzzkill much?
Yup.
Facts are reprocessed to make drama. If they’re not changed, rearranged, re-imagined, it’s not drama.
Apparently some of that stuff in DEADWOOD didn’t really happen the way they showed it, either.
then how is it that what she wrote sounds 10 times more interesting than anything in the entire moribund, overproduced, badly acted series?
Just the facts. (Go back to Arrakis)
He puts so much character into his character.It could have been a much less unique and interesting take on a injured war vet but he gave it great depth.I hope he’s given more to do.
Great news. Like others have said this show took a while to get into. But around mid-season was the episode where he was introduced and Nucky finally exploded when he burned down his father’s house. This has become the best show on television and Huston, as well as Michael Shannon, are the best things on it. Great news.
Excellent news. He was one of the best characters in season one.
This is terrific news, as long as his character keeps the talking to a minimum.
I don’t tink I will get a better Christmas present than hearing this news. Harrow is one of the most interesting and well done characters I have seen on TV, ever. He could easily have come across as cheesy, but Houston’s thanks to Huston’s superb acting it did not.
Yes. He needs to kill many more people next season.
Great character, directly ripped off from the novel The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch. It’s a great novel, winner of Pen/Faulkner award and National Book Critics Circle.
Quote from The New York Times review of the book below;
“William Bartholomew was a sharpshooter in the war, the model in fact for Winslow Homer’s famous rendering of a Union sniper in a tree. Detached from his unit with only a sergeant and a couple of privates, he stalked Southern soldiers, gaining a terrible reputation not only among the Confederate troops he preyed on but also among the Northern soldiers, who shunned him. We learn Bartholomew’s war story in fragments as he haunts the infamous Five Points neighborhood of lower Manhattan after the war, among the outlaw gangs, wild pigs, lost children and sewer rats, human and otherwise. He wears always a papier-mache mask, made by a prosthetist to hide the disfigurement of a hideous bullet wound that ended his sharpshooting. ”You have your limbs, God forgive us,” the prosthetist tells him. ”I suggest that I am proof of His unreadiness to do so,” Bartholomew replies. He is in business now, making money in the brutal and very personal battleground of New York commerce, collecting his own debts on the streets like a gangster, and yet he is a profound observer and rememberer, as self-possessed as when he hid unmoving in the trees with his Sharps rifle.”
I am so relieved someone else saw this connection. Did Scorcese have the rights to “borrow” so directly?
As soon as I saw this character, I ran to my bookshelf!
It is not a rip off of that story. I’m sure there have been other stories where a man was wearing a mask because of injuries suffered in war.
He received his injuries in a similar fashion, his mask looks exactly like the written description.
its not Caponi,still spelled Capone, buit with the accent on the e in the Italian fashion, Alfonse Capone.
When Alphonse (with a “ph” not with an “f”) Gabriel Capone and his brothers arrived in Chicago, they went by their Italian surname Caponi. If you look at the actual documentation at the time, you will see this is factually accurate.
Boardwalk Empire before Jack Huston…brilliant.
Boardwalk Empire after Jack Huston…STELLAR!!!!
This actor brings a smoldering combination of anger and desire which, thankfully, will continue to unfold in the second season.
The writing on the series is inept and embarrassing. Huston’s acting is like something out of a silent movie and his voice unfortunately recalls Christian Bale’s Batman…keep waiting for him to grab the Joker and say “I’m not like you!”
Oh and speaking of bad acting, can someone please hire Michael Pitt an elocution coach? He sounds like a mumbling teenager still.