MAY 10 - 16, 2020 staradvertiser.com LOVE Mark Ruffalo stars as Dominick and Thomas Birdsey, identical twin brothers struggling with the impact of mental illness in the new miniseries I Know This Much Is True. Based on the bestselling book of the same name, the program also stars Melissa Leo, Rosie O’Donnell, Archie Panjabi, Imogen Poots and Juliette Lewis. Premiering Sunday, May 10, on HBO. ANNOUNCING 2020 YOUTH XCHANGE VIDEO WINNERS Join host, Brook Lee, as this year’s Elementary, Middle and High School winners are announced. – Mahalo to Event sponsors Sony, Honolulu Star Advertiser, First Hawaiian Bank, Na Leo TV, and Ko Olina. 5:30PM MAY 11 | CHANNEL 53 ELEMENTARY _ MIDDLE SCHOOL 7:00PM ¶Olelo’s mobile app | olelo.org/53 olelo.org HIGH SCHOOL 8:30PM facebook.com/OleloCommunity 590203_YXC2020_2.indd 1 5/7/20 11:42 AM ON THE COVER | I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE A tale of two brothers Mark Ruffalo plays twins in schizophrenia. Although his condition is fairly who then recruited director Derek Cianfrance well managed, Thomas has occasional epi- to collaborate with him on the production. In an ‘I Know This Much Is True’ sodes that prompt his brother to intervene. interview with Variety, Ruffalo had high praise Eventually, their mother’s death pushes for Cianfrance, who also penned the scripts for By Kyla Brewer Thomas to the brink. all six episodes. TV Media An official news release describes the mini- “He really understands working-class series as “an epic story of betrayal, sacrifice America and the namelessness that is part of n today’s topsy-turvy world, family ties are as and forgiveness.” Like the book, the miniseries that,” Ruffalo explained. “Derek works harder important as ever. While no family is perfect, explores the lives of the Birdsey brothers in than anybody I’ve ever seen.” Ian epic new miniseries travels back and forth present day as well as through flashbacks In the same Variety article, HBO executive through time to explore a brotherly bond com- to their childhood and young adult years. Casey Bloys also commended Ruffalo for his plicated by mental illness. The miniseries marks Ruffalo’s first major work on the miniseries: Mark Ruffalo (“The Avengers,” 2012) does project as a producer, and it’s been in the “Mark is one of the greatest actors that double duty as identical twin brothers works for quite some time. In 2015, the we have living today,” Bloys said. “Everybody Dominick and Thomas Birdsey in the award-winning actor was working on understood that it was very special mate- new miniseries “I Know This Much Is another project when he learned that rial. We knew going in that if anybody could True,” premiering Sunday, May 10, the screen rights for the novel were pull off playing these two characters, it was on HBO. The six-part series is based coming up for option again. Previous at- Mark.” on the Wally Lamb novel of the same tempts to adapt the novel had not come This isn’t the fist time that the actor has name, a 1998 bestseller featured in to fruition, but he managed to convince tackled dual roles. Since 2012, he’s been play- Oprah’s Book Club. Lamb that the story would work ing Bruce Banner/Hulk in Marvel’s blockbuster In the fictional town best as a limited series. Avengers film series. The comic book charac- of Three Rivers, It was a bold play that ters may be a far cry from the gritty, realistic Connecticut, Dominick would pay off for Ruffalo, roles of the Birdsey brothers, but Banner and struggles to help Hulk are vastly different from each other, and his brother Thomas, Mark Ruffalo stars in “I the roles showcased Ruffalo’s versatility as a Know This Much Is True” who suffers from performer. Reprint Photos From Our Photo Galleries Relive the Memories. 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Catherine the Great restored return of characters played by Tituss Burgess author and the fiancée of a handsome prince Russia to its former glory and groomed the (“Set It Up,” 2018), Jane Krakowski (“Modern country to become one of the most powerful Family”) and Carol Kane (“Annie Hall,” 1977), empires in the world. This new series focuses alongside guest roles by Amy Sedaris (“Elf,” on the life of the famed Empress from her mar- 2003), Fred Armisen (“Saturday Night Live”) riage to the eccentrically bratty — if not slight- and Johnny Knoxville (“Bad Grandpa,” 2013), ly unhinged — Peter III, to her underhanded plot among others. and subsequent reign beginning in the 1760s. 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