“I was just so relieved that another black man got away from the injustice that was the LAPD.”
Hollywood producers Ryan Murphy and Nina Jacobson are producing The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, premiering Feb. 2 on FX, according to The Hollywood Reporter (THR).
Based on Jeffrey Toobin’s book The Run of his Life, the 10-episode series is, as THR puts it, a “meticulous blow-by-blow of the case, illuminating all the ways it inflamed racial politics, presaged the reign of reality TV, set the gold standard for saturation news coverage and tainted everyone involved as a tabloid caricature.”
The first installment in an anthology that will take on a different real-life crime story each season, The People v. O.J. Simpson stars John Travolta as Simpson attorney Robert Shapiro, Courtney B. Vance as Johnnie Cochran, David Schwimmer as Robert Kardashian, Sarah Paulson as prosecutor Marcia Clark, and Cuba Gooding Jr. as O.J.
Gooding had once rooted for Simpson’s acquittal: “Back then, I was just so relieved that another black man got away from the injustice that was the LAPD. I was just so relieved that they didn’t screw us over again.” But in his preparation for the role of O.J., the Oscar winner says, “There was one day after filming that I went to my trailer and I couldn’t stop crying because I realized I never [even considered the loss] for the Goldman or Brown family.”
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