Norbert Leo Butz on Becoming Coach Bill Belichick and Thomas Sadoski on Tackling Hernandez’s Agent Brian Murphy | 10

Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc.

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4.8 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Actors Thomas Sadoski and Norbert Leo Butz join Patty Wen to talk about the new FX series American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez. Sadoski, who plays Hernandez’s agent Brian Murphy, and Butz, who plays Patriots' coach Bill Belichick, discuss how they brought these complicated, larger-than-life figures to the screen — and the complex ethics of their relationships with the troubled athlete.

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0:00.0	Wunderry Plus subscribers can binge all episodes of Gladiator ad free.
0:04.0	Join Wunderry Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. I'm Patty Wynne from the Boston Globe and this is a special episode of
0:18.1	Gladiator Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc. I'm talking today with actors Norbert Leo Butts and Thomas Sadowski.
0:27.0	They both appear in FX's American Sport Story, Aaron Hernandez.
0:31.0	It's a 10 episode TV series based on our 2018 print and
0:35.9	podcast series from the Boston Globe and Wundery.
0:40.3	Norbert Leo Butts plays New England Patriots head coach Bill Bellicheck.
0:45.0	We'll hear from Norbert about playing this iconic character later on.
0:49.0	But first I sat down with Thomas Sadowski.
0:52.0	He plays Brian Murphy, Aaron Hernandez's agent, who managed his jump from college
0:56.4	football to multi-million dollar deals with the NFL. I was curious, what was it like for these actors to play such large looming
1:04.9	real-life characters and how did they contend with the complicated ethics of these
1:09.8	figures in Aaron Hernandez's life? I enjoy on some level playing characters that from Jump are not to be trusted.
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2:05.0	Thomas Sadowski is a Tony nominated actor who has originated roles on and off Broadway. In TV he's best known for playing Don Kiefer in HBO's The Newsroom.
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