Michael Imperioli as Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York.Matt and Sweat made their escape on Boyd's shift. Gregory Dann as Albert Boyd, the fearsome and most loathed correctional officer at Clinton Correctional.Carolyn Mignini as Ilene Mulvaney, Tilly’s supervisor who frequently butts heads with her.Joshua Rivera as Angel, a fellow inmate of Matt and Sweat's.Michael Beasley as Murder, an inmate who’s given Sweat’s job as shop supervisor upon his firing.Jeremy Bobb as Dennis Lambert, a corrections officer and friend of Lyle.David Morse as Gene Palmer, the inmate escort guard at Clinton Correctional.Eric Lange as Lyle Mitchell, Tilly's husband and maintenance worker at Clinton Correctional.Bonnie Hunt as Catherine Leahy Scott, the New York State Inspector General heading up a formal investigation of the Matt–Sweat prison escape.Paul Dano as David Sweat, a convicted murderer.Patricia Arquette as Joyce "Tilly" Mitchell, a married prison worker who becomes romantically entangled with both Matt and Sweat and aids in their escape.Benicio del Toro as Richard Matt, a convicted murderer. The escape prompted a massive manhunt for the two convicted murderers, who were aided in their escape by a married female prison employee with whom they both became sexually entangled. The series is based on the true story of the 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape in upstate New York. It stars Benicio del Toro, Patricia Arquette, Paul Dano, Bonnie Hunt, Eric Lange, and David Morse. The seven-episode series was created and written by Brett Johnson and Michael Tolkin and directed by Ben Stiller. It is based on the 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape. But the reality is that they did these brutal crimes, so that's why I felt it was important to have it be shocking and brutal, as a viewer after sort of being lulled into the reality of who they were now.Escape at Dannemora is an American crime drama television limited series that premiered on Showtime on November 18, 2018. just guys in prison trying to get out, which is what your experience would be of them if you met him the way I met David Sweat, as a guy just sitting there across from me. you've developed this sort of impression of who these guys are based on who they've been for the last five hours of the series. But it's very brutal, and I mean the intention behind it was hopefully, as an audience, you are jarred because. It came down more as we were editing it, got less and less in terms of what we saw. I had to kind of go off my own subjective feeling about what was important to see about what did. On waiting until late in the series to reveal the gruesome murders that landed Sweat and Matt in prisonĭirector Ben Stiller says he was intrigued by Matt and Sweat's escape story: "What really interested me was how they were able to do this, how they were able to get away with this." At the same time, he offered up all the details that I could ask for and was really specific. I think he really made it clear that he knew that he had done something wrong, and didn't want to seem that he was kind of proud of it. My experience with him was that he was very affable and he had a sense of not really wanting to boast about in a way that seemed like he had accomplished something that was good. I mean the details of the escape are really the most interesting thing to me about talking to him and why I wanted to talk to him. So I just wanted to sit across from him and see what he had to say about the escape, especially. I wrote a letter to him, and then the Department of Corrections, when they decided to start helping us, offered us access to go meet with him if he agreed to meet. I wanted to meet with him, mainly because I'd spent so much time on the research. On interviewing David Sweat, who was captured and returned to prison on June 28, 2015 The series also dives into the complicated relationship between Matt and Sweat (played by Benicio del Toro and Paul Dano) and Joyce "Tilly" Mitchell ( Patricia Arquette), the civilian prison worker who enabled their escape. Stiller explores the nuts and bolts of the escape, which involved sledge hammering through brick walls and cutting into and shimmying through an 18-inch steam pipe, in his seven-part Showtime series Escape at Dannemora. "It seemed like such an old-fashioned sort of escape, and I thought, 'Wow, how can that happen in today's prison system?' " "What really interested me was how they were able to do this, how they were able to get away with this," Stiller says. So when he heard about Richard Matt and David Sweat, two convicted murderers who used tools provided by a prison employee to break out of a New York state maximum security prison in June 2015, he was intrigued. Paul Dano and Benicio del Toro play inmates David Sweat and Richard Matt in Escape at Dannemora.īen Stiller loves a good escape story.
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