For an actor, portraying murderous gangster Whitey Bulger is a dream function. For an area, who is aware of the evil tales surrounding the monster, it’s a thorny process and emotional train.
On Wednesday, on the Wilbur, Taunton character actor Paul Kandarian will play Bulger in a dynamic, multimedia dwell stage present spun off from the smash true crime podcast “Saints, Sinners & Serial Killers.”
“In no way is this meant to glorify Whitey,” Kandarian advised the Herald. “He took so many lives and touched so many others because of what he did. He was a scumbag and I’m not trying to glorify that. I’m trying to present a piece of history.”
Playing Bulger affords different challenges too. Much of Bulger’s life was lived within the shadows. There may be very little footage of how talked, walked or acted exterior a jail cell.
“He was largely a myth, a legend, this figure that people knew about but there aren’t a lot of digital memories of this guy,” Kandarian mentioned. “Because it was his way or a shallow grave, he seemed to be simmering with this attitude, with this chip on his shoulder, so that’s how I play him.”
“Saints, Sinners & Serial Killers” will dig into authors Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge’s sequence of bestselling books on Bulger, the Boston Strangler and the homicide of John Lennon (written with legendary thriller scribe James Patterson). Sherman and Wedge will lead the viewers by way of a sequence of tales, whereas an ensemble forged will carry out chilling scenes from their true crime tomes.
“We said, ‘Let’s bring the podcast to the live stage but let’s make it a really immersive, multi-sensory experience,’” Wedge mentioned. “We thought the way to do that was to bring in actors and mix them in with video, audio and photos.”
Crime scene footage, dwell narration, music and extra will mix with on stage dialogue culled from the precise phrases of those notorious killers.
Becoming any of the characters in “Saints Sinners & Serial Killers” is a tall order — darkish and terrifying. But these concerned within the manufacturing admit portraying Whitey is on an entire totally different degree. Kandarian references his ultimate monologue because the Boston mobster and the virtually wistful phrases the homicide wrote in a letter about having an incredible life.
“I’m thinking, ‘Good god, how can this man think he had a great life? He screwed up so many people’s lives,’” the actor mentioned. “Presenting Whitey like that was a hell of a challenge and a hell of a responsibility. … Some actors don’t want to play bad guys or unsavory characters, but I love it. I love to stretch, love the challenge. ”
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