Tony Winner Tracy Letts Didn't Want a British invasion in his Southern-cooked American masterpiece August: Osage County by Ryan Gilbert

Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein deserves credit for asking Tracy Letts to adapt his own play August: Osage County for the film version. We don't think anyone else would've been able to keep the venomous hilarity of the Weston family fully intact in the Pulitzer Prize-winning black comedy. Yet, Letts and Weinstein did butt heads over one thing during the making of the movie—the casting of Benedict Cu…

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