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Oct 27, 2016 · White Collar alum Tim DeKay has been tapped for a recurring role on the upcoming third installment of John Ridley’s ABC anthology drama series American Crime. He will play a relative to...
Oct 28, 2016 · Deadline reports White Collar ‘s Tim DeKay has joined season three of the ABC TV series. From John Ridley, the new season of the anthology drama will be set in North Carolina and explore workers’...
Jan 3, 2017 · The American Crime Season 3 Plot: When a father, Luis Salazar (Benito Martinez), travels illegally from Mexico into the United States to search for his missing son, he discovers that modern servitude is thriving in the farmlands and agricultural communities.
Oct 27, 2016 · White Collar alum Tim DeKay has joined Season 3 of ABC’s American Crime in a recurring role.
- Exposing The Mentality of Slave Drivers
- Revealing How Other Immigrants Are Enlisted to Help Them Oppress
- Showing That Sympathetic Allies Don’T Have A Voice Either
- Divulging That Migrant Workers Aren’T The only Modern Slaves
- Revealing That Hurt People Hurt People
- Showing How Language Can Be A Weapon
- Suggesting That Satisfying Personal Desires Can Blind You
- Revealing Circumstances When Slavery Is Preferable to Abuse
- Exposing A System That Can Force You Back Into Slavery
If a farm can get inexpensive labor by hiring undocumented workers, what makes them go the extra mile to treat them badly? Couldn’t a farm owner mitigate the low pay by offering pleasant conditions? Ridley says they’re motivated to break the workers’ spirit. “The essence of human nature is to move towards freedom, liberty, and self-determination,” ...
Richard Cabralplays a manager on the tomato farm. His character was a migrant worker himself, so why would he help perpetuate slave conditions? “He feels no remorse for what he’s inflicting because he, too, went through this as a child,” Cabral said during the Paley Center panel. “Everything that he’s asking from everybody, he’s done himself. This ...
When Jeanette realizes something is wrong on the farm, her husband makes sure she can’t change the system his family has in place. “She finds herself in a circumstance where she doesn’t have a voice, where she doesn’t have stature, where she needs to find out what she’s about,” Ridley told Rotten Tomatoes. Playing someone with little agency or powe...
Taylor and Timothy Hutton play parents Clair and Nicholas who hire Gabrielle Durand (Mickaëlle X. Bizet) as an au pair from Haiti. “It’s not so usual that it’s a Caucasian woman who’s hiring in a domestic like that, and it starts to get into problematic stuff,” Taylor told Rotten Tomatoes. “I hire this nanny to try and solve some of the problems in...
On the tomato farm, slave labor conditions are part of their business model. Hutton and Taylor’s Nicholas and Clair Coates did not set out to be slave drivers. They just project their personal frustrations onto their au pair. “Part of what happens is Nicholas is very mean to Clair, and then I end up being very mean to the nanny,” Taylor said. “When...
When someone comes to America and doesn’t speak English, they rely on people who speak their language to translate for them. As people on the farm, or the au pair in a suburban house find out, they can be misrepresented by English speakers. The season captures that experience by presenting some dialogue without subtitles. “We have a character who, ...
Clair enjoys France and speaking French. She got excited about bringing a Haitian into her home, but starts treating her like a new toy, not as a person. “I think some of it’s that Claire is a francophile,” Taylor told Rotten Tomatoes. “She spent time in France, just loves things French. Clair thought that’d be a great way for me to work on my Fren...
Shae turned to the streets to escape her abusive family. For her, prostitution was an improvement. “Her family is definitely more dangerous to her than the environment she’s in,” Mulvoy-Ten told Rotten Tomatoes on the red carpet before the panel. “She actually thinks that where she’s at now, living in a bedroom with six other people run by her pimp...
Shae needs an abortion because she was impregnated on the job. The law in North Carolina requires a teen under 18 to get her parents’ consent. Now Shae is caught between her abusive mother and going back to her pimp. “It just seemed completely unfair that her parents abused her and the whole reason she was on the streets doing the job she was doing...
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Mar 9, 2017 · Our setting this time is rural North Carolina, with much of the action centered on a tomato farm run by siblings Laurie Ann (Cherry Jones), JD (Tim DeKay), and Carson (Dallas Roberts), whose...
Mar 11, 2017 · Felicity Huffman and Regina King fill us in on their characters in the new season of 'American Crime.'
