Richard Jewell's mother and former lawyer, and the stars who play them, on the new Clint Eastwood film about the wrongly accused ’96 Olympics bomber
Richard Jewell loved movies, particularly anything with John Wayne or Clint Eastwood. Living with his mother, Bobi, in her Atlanta apartment, Jewell, who worked as a security guard, would sometimes tell her when there was a film he thought she’d like so they could watch it together.
On July 27, 1996, a week into the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Richard Jewell was working security at a nighttime concert in the city’s Centennial Park when he noticed a suspicious backpack underneath a bench and alerted the police. A bomb squad was called in and, as Jewell and other security and law enforcement personnel worked to evacuate people from the area, an explosive device in the backpack detonated.
Sam Rockwell as Watson Bryant, left, Kathy Bates as Bobi Jewell and Paul Walter Hauser as Richard Jewell in a scene from “Richard Jewell.” “I met Bobi when I went down to shoot in Atlanta and we spent quite a few hours together,” says Bates, who has earned a Golden Globes nomination for supporting actress for her performance. “Even after all these years, it’s still really raw for her and she teared up quite a few times as she told me some anecdotes: how they were supported by their church but prevented from seeing them and how Richard was prevented from going to visit a friend when he was dying. It was just devastating.
Director Clint Eastwood with Bobi Jewell on the red carpet for the premiere of “Richard Jewell” at AFI Fest on Nov. 20. At a time of intense polarization, how the wider audience will receive “Richard Jewell” remains to be seen. But it won’t hit anyone in quite the same way that it does Bryant and Bobi Jewell.
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