When Donald Trump was shot on July 13 it made Tobias Menzies feel “goosebumpy”. Months earlier, the 50-year old London-born actor was playing Edwin Stanton, the lawyer tracking down Abraham Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth in Apple TV’s Manhunt.
“That was a time in American history where democracy was really under threat and the rules were thrown up into the air,” he says. “And yes, they're going through a period [like that] again with Donald Trump, who is a disrupter, someone who doesn't play by the same rules. After we made it, seeing that extraordinary attempt on Trump's life felt very goosebumpy, the news cycle coming so close to our show. But those echoes, those repeats of history, make for potentially really great drama.”
