Last night, the 29-year-old Irish actor Anthony Boyle shape-shifted from Major Harry Crosby, a clean-cut American war hero, to John Wilkes Booth, the American actor turned assassin. The transformation happened at midnight, when Apple TV+ simultaneously released the season finale of Masters of the Air—Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg’s World War II drama based on the American 100th bomb group, which is narrated by Boyle’s character—and the premiere of Manhunt, a conspiracy thriller about Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.
“Crosby was somebody who was motivated by love and had so much goodness in him and was quite nervous,” Boyle tells me. “Booth was motivated by evil, he was very confident, and he was an asshole. He was the direct antithesis of Crosby.”
