BONUS: Chris Evans and Michelle Dockery on Defending Jacob
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Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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This episode was made in collaboration with Apple TV+. Hosts LaToya Ferguson and Joe Reid discuss the eight-part limited series, based on the novel by William Landay. Stars Chris Evans and Michelle Dockery also discuss their performances as parents caught in an impossible situation when their son is accused of a horrific crime.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode was created in collaboration with Apple TV Plus. |
| 0:05.0 | Before we begin, I want to make something clear. |
| 0:09.0 | A kid your age charged with first-degree murder is tried as an adult. |
| 0:14.4 | I swear. I didn't know it. |
| 0:17.0 | We believe you. |
| 0:18.4 | They're saying he looks smug and remorseless. |
| 0:21.6 | This is going to follow him around for the rest of his life. |
| 0:24.2 | It's a mistake. |
| 0:25.2 | We better figure it out. |
| 0:27.0 | Did you have any doubts about Jacob's innocence? |
| 0:28.7 | No, of course not. |
| 0:30.7 | Can't leave his fate up to the corner of. |
| 0:37.0 | My only job now is trying to protect our son. |
| 0:41.0 | You can be a good man, or you can be a good father. |
| 0:44.0 | This is damaging. |
| 0:46.0 | This is evidence. |
| 0:48.0 | You're scaring him. |
| 0:49.0 | Good, he should be scared. I'm scared. |
| 0:57.0 | There is no normal to go back to just before. And after. Jacob. I'm Latoya Ferguson. And I'm Joe Reed. We are here to discuss the adaptation of |
| 1:15.0 | William Landay's novel defending Jacob, created by Mark Baumbach, who wrote Outlaw King and |
| 1:20.6 | War for the Planet of the Apes, among other films, |
| 1:24.0 | and all eight episodes are directed by Morton Tildum, |
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