THE LOWDOWN - FX / HULU

The Lowdown is the story of Lee Raybon (Ethan Hawke), a used bookstore owner and self-described “Truthstorian”, committed to digging up and reporting on the hidden workings of power, often to his own detriment. Lee’s character is inspired by a real friend of Director Sterlin Harjo, Lee Roy Chapman, a part-time journalist and Tulsa legend. Lee Roy’s crowning achievement was meticulously researching and writing a story that forced the city to reevaluate the legacy of one of its modern founding fathers, Tate Brady. He proved that Brady played an active role in the Tulsa Race Massacre, prompting the city to remove his name from the Tate Brady district, the Brady theater, and reckon with its own concealed history. Lee Roy unfortunately passed away in 2015.

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I worked on character Lee Raybon's apartment with a wallpaper "conspiracy wall."  It was based on meticulous research on the real history of Tate Brady's link to the plotting and execution of the Tulsa Race Massacre and the unraveling of that history that still affects the heartland of America today.  I took it very seriously in the pilot and it made it to the first season building the character played by Ethan Hawk.