On today's 'Can't Stop Watching,' watchmen star Tim Blake Nelson says the truth about the Tulsa race massacre — the series' animating incident — was 'concealed' from students in his native Oklahoma
staff writer and host Yvonne Villarreal asks “Watchmen” star Tim Blake Nelson whether he was aware of the HBO series’ animating incident — the massacre of black residents by a white mob in Tulsa in 1921 — as a child growing up in Oklahoma:
I knew very little. It was certainly not advertised in Oklahoma history courses or American history courses, and it should have been featured in each. It was only when I went to college and interviewed for a poetry class with an African American professor, a wonderful poet named Michael Wright, that I was asked about it: Was I aware that the worst race massacre — although he called it a “race riot” — in American history had occurred in the city in which I was raised? ...
Listen to the full episode to hear Nelson talk about wearing his “Watchmen” character’s reflective costume, why he and his family decided to ride out the COVID-19 pandemic in New York and the safety protocols he’ll follow on a film shoot in Arkansas later this month. Plus, check out past episodes with
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