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    'Perry Mason' Reboot Is No Rerun: This Is A 'Very Dark' Take, Says Matthew Rhys

    Welsh actor Matthew Rhys stars in the HBO version of the 1960s legal drama. This Perry Mason is a seamy, slovenly private eye in 1932 Los Angeles. "He doesn't fit in in any way," Rhys says.
    by Scott Simon Jun 20, 2020 2 minutes
    Matthew Rhys plays <em></em>Perry Mason in the new HBO reboot of the legal drama based on Erle Stanley Gardner's detective stories. "To my mind, he makes a good private investigator because he doesn't fit in in any way," Rhys says.

    When actor Matthew Rhys first found out about plans to reboot the legal drama Perry Mason his first question was: Why?

    "Why would you? How can you?" says Rhys, who stars in the new HBO show.

    This is no rerun of your grandfather's from the 1960s. He's not a sharply creased L.A. defense lawyer, with a voice that

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