Frederick Weller can currently be seen as Bob Ewell in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD on Broadway. Previous Broadway credits include MOTHERS AND SONS, SEASCAPE, GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, TAKE ME OUT, THE LITTLE FOXES, THE REHEARSAL, & SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION. Other notable theater includes Ivo van Hove’s A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, FULFILLMENT CENTER, SOME MEN, & MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN. TRAINING: The Juilliard School; BA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
I sit down with Frederick Weller to talk about his role in Aaron Sorkin's TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, growing up in New Orleans, the lesson he learned from the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, his training at Juilliard, and some advice he recently received from Spike Lee.