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‘Masters of the Air’ Boss John Orloff Compares Austin Butler and Callum Turner’s Characters to ‘Top Gun’: ‘They Were Maverick Before Maverick Existed’
'Masters of the Air' showrunner John Orloff on showing the end of the Nazi empire and why the Hundredth Bomber group were the Mavericks of the '30s.
While it might seem like a no-brainer that the team behind “Band of Brothers” and “The Pacific” — including Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and John Orloff — would hit it out of the park with a new World War II series, it wasn’t plain sailing, in large part thanks to COVID, which resulted in numerous delays. Adding to its challenges, the show is not an easy watch, from its depiction of the anguish of losing beloved characters to the moral dilemmas posed by the story — and, of course, the mental workout of simply keeping up with such a vast and changing cast. One particularly uncomfortable, poignant moment is when Callum Turner’s character, Bucky, is on the forced prisoner-of-war march through Germany as the Allies are closing in, and he sees a German woman sobbing as she’s standing in the rubble of her home.
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