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Sharlto Copley Burrowed Into the Unabomber’s Soul to Play ‘Ted K,’ but Doesn’t Believe in Going Full Method
Click here to read the full article. Learning to skin a bunny, actor Sharlto Copley says, is “not pleasant.”
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and now living in Los Angeles, the longtime character actor considers himself a city dweller. Six-foot-tall and bearded, he has a gentle, mountain man–like presence, but Zooming out of his L.A. home in the hills, he’s a far cry from Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, whom he plays in the new film “Ted K.” For director Tony Stone’s imagining of the Harvard-educated math prodigy who ran afoul of civilized life to live off the land in the...