Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell have – perhaps predictably, given their family ties – been approached to play relatives before. But Godzilla spin-off show Monarch: Legacy of Monsters offered the father-son duo something altogether more exciting: the chance to play the same role, decades apart.
Enter Lee Shaw. In the 1950s portion of the MonsterVerse spin-off on Apple TV Plus, Wyatt Russell’s take on the character is a dutiful soldier who gets drawn into the wide-eyed world of Monarch and monster-hunting. When we see him in the 21st Century, Kurt Russell’s Shaw is suspicious, verging on paranoid, when a conspiracy lands on his doorstep.
