Jeff Daniels Channels Atticus Finch

The New Yorker
By Sheelah Kolhatkar
October 4, 2021

The “To Kill a Mockingbird” star returns to Broadway and discusses his protest music and how his new series, “American Rust,” offers a window onto white, working-class towns like his own.

The actor Jeff Daniels recently returned to his pied-à-terre in Manhattan after a long pandemic absence. “It’s a little like walking into a dead person’s apartment,” he said the other day over Zoom. “Except you’re the one who’s dead.” Daniels was lounging on a rumpled couch in a purple T-shirt he hadn’t seen since 2019, his fingers hovering over the strings of a Martin acoustic guitar. A pair of round rimless spectacles slid down his nose.

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