![]() (They, along with Daniels, are among the executive producers.)įutterman, the showrunner of “Rust,” recalled the question Daniels asked: “‘If you love it, would you remind me what I love about it?’” So when he found the bandwidth, he sought out two writer-producers with whom he had worked on a TV adaptation of another acclaimed book, “The Looming Tower”: Dan Futterman and Adam Rapp. Daniels recognized the characters in “American Rust.” His father, Robert Lee Daniels, had been the mayor of Daniels’s hometown, Chelsea, Mich., and owned a lumber yard. Soon after Daniels met Meyer, the actor was knee-deep in “The Newsroom” (2012-14) and other projects. When he visited Pittsburgh, where his brother was in college, Meyer realized, “This is where I put the story.” The American dream had failed them.”īut for his first novel, he decided Baltimore, with its many industries, was too complicated for what he had in mind. “But it was also clear that you had this giant population of unemployed young men, guys in their 20s and 30s who had been laid off last year or four years ago or five years ago. “Violent crime was super high,” Meyer said from his home in Austin. Meyer grew up in a blue-collar area of Baltimore in the ’80s, when he watched various industries - textile, shipyards, steel, auto - slowly decline. These are just everyday normal people that are in every corner of every county in this country.” Daniels was struck by how Meyer located the humanity of characters who don’t get a lot of cultural shine, characters he knows from having spent most of his life in Michigan. They’re at the bottom.”ĭaniels’s road to Buell began over 10 years ago when he went to see Meyer read from his novel in New York. “Any one of these characters could pack up their car and just leave, but they don’t,” Daniels said. Isaac remains trapped at home, forced to care for an angry, wheelchair-bound father who constantly belittles him. ![]() Lee, though married and living in New York - she is the rare character in “American Rust” who has managed to escape - finds herself drawn back to Billy nonetheless. Meanwhile, Isaac and Lee have troubles of their own: Their father (Bill Camp) was nearly killed in a mill accident, and their mother committed suicide by walking into the river with pockets full of rocks, like Virginia Woolf. Billy’s best (and perhaps only) friend, Isaac English (David Alvarez), is also the brother of the woman who broke his heart, Lee (Julia Mayorga) - and that may be the least of their friendship’s complications. ![]() You could say the chief is compromised by his circumstances and passions. ![]() Grace’s son, Billy (Alex Neustaedter), who chose to stay in Buell instead of accepting a Division I football scholarship, keeps getting caught up in violent crime, including a murder. He is in love with Grace Poe (Maura Tierney), who sews at a local dress factory and lives in a trailer on the verge of foreclosure. ![]()
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