Jeff Daniels performs a scene from 'To Kill a Mockingbird' | Live from Here with Chris Thile

[@kelq1297]

I was there and this was spectacular! I was also lucky enough to see him perform this on Broadway!

[@kathyfox8288]

Me too!

[@FrancisMasaba1]

Same! The play was fantastic! Superb, superb, superb!

[@edlinriadi4127]

That is one great southern accent performance. Not overdone, with precise punctuation and tempo...bravo!

[@mjbachman3027]

From a native Michigander.

[@adamrmoss]

Bro he sounds like Foghorn Leghorn

[@peopleunite3605]

Whoa, that was fabulous. Great work, Jeff Daniels!

[@brendaredmond4678]

So relevant today. Brilliant performance Mr. Daniels.

[@mysticartist7]

That was an amazing performance ! Gregory Peck would be proud of Jeff Daniels !

[@TubeNutriDoc]

Brings a stir to my heart and a tear to my eye. Thank you, Jeff Daniels and Arron Sorkin and all those who helped to facilitate the reminder of the better part of humanity, which may be hidden, today.

[@christopherrice6553]

saw it today at st louis. i was shock how much i laugh and cried when i saw it

[@bixby9797]

Damn Straight, Jeff. Great monologue.

[@666waughtron666]

Jeff Daniels is outstanding.

[@Squirrel36]

The day Mr. Daniels passes on, the world will be a sad place to live in! He brings so much sunshine, rainbows, and magic in it!

[@Seamus322]

Caught the show over the weekend-brilliant!!

[@Master_WannaBe_]

After watching the Newsroom for the first time, I knew Jeff Daniels would be perfect for Atticus Finch as soon as I heard he was cast

[@infinteloveforfilm]

I had a chance to see his performance in the play "To kill a mockingbird." What a superb and compelling performance!!

[@JeevesReturns]

Quite the homage to another great actor and story teller.

[@rukeyser]

JeevesReturns No it isn’t. As Daniels has said , this is a new character, and he is the original performer. NOTHING about this Atticus is the same. For one thing, this is Aaron Sorkin’s Atticus,so he likes to hear himself talk so he says a LOT more . For another - if you actually watch Peck again - both his style and accent are COMPLETELY different. Peck’s cadence is slow, and he makes little effort to affect a southern accent. In these regards, Daniels is thoroughly believable: his accent is excellent, and his rhythm is both faster and more complex than Peck’s. This Atticus is a *storyteller* - Sorkin has transferred the Mockingbird story to *the courtroom* - just in case Americans don’t understand that the jury is about to kill a mockingbird - Sorkin caNOT stop preaching so he made his Atticus a preacher. This is not to say Daniels isn’t great - he is - he is the best man for Sorkin’s sensibility and he does a great job. But this is a genuinely re-imagined story : it is not an adaptation of the novel, as the movie was. It adds scenes and changes text to a degree that changes what the characters bring to the audience. There’s the book. There’s the film: 2 varieties of apple. And there’s this play, which is closer to an Orange.

[@JeevesReturns]

rukeyser Did you wake up and say “today I’ll be an overly opinionated asshole anonymously online to someone I’ve never met or will meet”?

[@timbergling674]

So happy I got to see that live from 4th row, center at the Shubert last August :)

[@AKSyndrome]

For me -- 7th row, Tim. BUT (!), it was Ed Harris on my birthday (Jan 18th) AND my first-ever Broadway experience

[@theingabo212]

I’m loving this!!

[@elizabethsaliba8077]

Would love to have seen that play

[@dr.aniasara7038]

Thanks Jeff. Wonderful.

[@chickenpeppers]

amazing performance!

[@JM-fc9gm]

So so so so good.

[@briantravelman]

It's so weird seeing him on Broadway after seeing him in television for so many years

[@foursticks100]

Loved this book and the movie Especially Bobby Duvall as Boo Radley

[@rcoles82]

Wish I lived in the states and in a position go and see this play.

[@Squirrel36]

Too cool!

[@karenholden7526]

Wow!

[@michaeldenney6622]

oh how i want pbs to telecast these important worksonpbs chanelsi was very pleasantlysurprisedto see theyhad done so withthe nance starting nathan lane

[@samanthkrishnappa9533]

I enjoyed this

[@Squirrel36]

Jeff has a sexy Southern tone in his voice!

[@Gwynbuck]

I've just fact-checked myself and I was wrong, it was Atticus Finch who said 'it's a sin to kill a mocking bird'.

[@jenn280]

How do we get this out?

[@tony_lasagna]

INCREDIBLE....but......its even more incredible at 0.75x speed.

[@elliott4106]

I must say, my first thought was that it seems rushed.

[@budmoore7971]

"A conscious can be exhausting. It will keep you up at night..." Since George Floyd was murdered, I don't sleep... Not like I used too... my nights are filled with thoughts, with turmoil... I can find no peace, no rest... A mans knee on another mans neck for almost nine minutes while he begs and pleads for air, to just be able to breath, to live... A little girl, who will grow up without her father. A family sitting at a table with a now empty chair. So no, I can't find peace, and I can't find rest. And none of us should. Until we can all say, until we can all believe in our hearts, that "Black Lives do Matter".

[@johnchristmas7522]

Bud, I'm a Brit and feel for you. I am white, not the kind, like that policeman. What I saw was unbelievable, the cop using his badge as a shield to commit murder. not only him either, because his other "officers" were as guilty as him. They did nothing to stop him, they knew exactly what was happening. It was happening because he was Black. I am ashamed of our American friends, who apply the law only against Blacks. Your prisons prove that.

[@Squirrel36]

Jeff is sexy with that Southern accent!

[@noelmadrigal9275]

You could hear a pin drop at a certain point

[@Gwynbuck]

Well, I have read the book, and the person who says 'It's a sin to kill a mocking bird' was the family's black housekeeper Calpurnia- not Atticus Finch!

[@saking91kingsley43]

It's actually the neighbor, Miss Maudie, who says that.

[@joshuaklein8465]

he's not reading from the book

[@adamwebster3884]

Atticus said to Jem one day, “I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

[@Squirrel36]

The sexy Jeff Daniels looks like he coulda been Alan Hale, Jr. (Skipper)’s son!

[@Squirrel36]

Oh, Jeffy, why don't you be my date?!

[@rickwyant]

Sounds like they embellished and changed the words. Don't think it doesn't change the feel of the story, it does.

[@rukeyser]

Richard Wyant “THEY” is Aaron Sorkin. That changes EVERYTHING: the characters, the scenes, the story. The movie adapted a story by Harper Lee. This play is a story written by Aaron Sorkin: imagine David Mamet rewriting Alice in Wonderland ;-)

[@carolynbrown2655]

...I just couldnt feel Atticus in this portrayal...I saw the best in Peck...Daniels fails to please me...

[@rukeyser]

Carolyn Brown Here’s my comment to a guy who called this performance and play a tribute to a great actor and story: No it isn’t. As Daniels has said , this is a new character, and he is the original performer. NOTHING about this Atticus is the same. For one thing, this is Aaron Sorkin’s Atticus,so he likes to hear himself talk so he says a LOT more . For another - if you actually watch Peck again - both his style and accent are COMPLETELY different. Peck’s cadence is slow, and he makes little effort to affect a southern accent. In these regards, Daniels is thoroughly believable: his accent is excellent, and his rhythm is both faster and more complex than Peck’s. This Atticus is a *storyteller* - Sorkin has transferred the Mockingbird story to *the courtroom* - just in case Americans don’t understand that the jury is about to kill a mockingbird - Sorkin caNOT stop preaching so he made his Atticus a preacher. This is not to say Daniels isn’t great - he is - he is the best man for Sorkin’s sensibility and he does a great job. But this is a genuinely re-imagined story : it is not an adaptation of the novel, as the movie was. It adds scenes and changes text to a degree that changes what the characters bring to the audience. There’s the book. There’s the film: 2 varieties of apple. And there’s this play, which is closer to an Orange.

[@josephdukes4490]

Even though I Love Jeff Daniels...I will say that as a Southerner knowing that there are many many different dialects within one state let alone the collective South as a whole, THIS IS THE WORST SOUTHERN ATTEMPT AND MORE OF AN INSULT

[@H1delta]

So you don't like it... Please see peck's performance in the movie. He too did not have the classic southern drawl that most male of the south utter.

[@MultiBunnyhunter]

i’m embarrassed for these people

[@jam3407]

The Dumb and dumber guy

[@oneseeker2]

I agree he did not over do the southern accent. Still, its obviously a "fake" southern accent, why even ruin the book, the movie, and it does! Just use your mother's tongue.