Sharlto Copley & Tony Stone Interview: Ted K
The story of Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, is well-known and has been depicted multiple times in popular media. Director Tony Stone is the latest to take a stab at it with the new film Ted K, which is set right before Kaczynski's arrest. Actor Sharlto Copley stars in the movie as Kaczynski.
Screen Rant spoke with Stone and Copley about their approach to making Ted K, Copley's transformative performance, and much more.
Related: Read Screen Rant's Ted K Review
Screen Rant: Tony, I'll start with you. What a mesmerizing movie by the way. What was your goal in approaching this film? What was the number one thing that you wanted to accomplish?
Tony Stone: The goal was to really put you in the place of Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, as much as possible, and that's what I was interested in. How did this guy live? He lived off the land, off the grid, no running water, no electricity. How did he come to basically paralyze the nation with his bombing campaign? But also at the same time, his ideas have become more prophetic as time has gone on. It's kind of like an evolving character, where depending on the period, and depending on how we are dealing with technology and environmental degradation, people sort of look back on them different. So this idea started over 10 years ago, and it's been interesting to evolve, seeing how people's ideas on Ted Kaczynski have evolved over the last decade.
We've seen Ted's story told in the past from the FBI side, from the manhunt side. How did you select what aspects of Ted's life to focus on?
Tony Stone: Setting the film right before his arrest, to me, was the most fascinating because that's when things started really to accelerate. That's why the film is loosely five to 10 years before he was
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