![]() ![]() "You may see Lyle as someone who is simple but he is a lot smarter than a lot of people would give him credit for. Still, he believes there's more to this 'simple' minded husband who just wants a routinely peaceful life. I think there's like solace in that for him, in that regularity." Lyle Mitchell and his wife, Joyce 'Tilly' Mitchell, in a photo from 2015. He wakes up every day, but he's just happy to have his job to himself and his wife when they come home. They pick places to have dinner, they go to sleep, and they do it again. "And the way his life comes off to the outside is very routinely. "I've never met him. He didn't want to meet, and I respect and understand why, but when I talked to the guards who knew him, simple was the word I heard over and over," Lange explains. It was mostly because of how he was in love with the idea of a simple, peaceful routinely life he led with Tilly. Lange believes it was neither out of foolish, blinded love, nor intentional denial. What he was also indulging in was a character that comes off as totally oblivious to his wife's indiscretions, let alone the prison break plan for that matter. This heightened the story," he continues, explaining what drew him to the character of Lyle. You realize that this guy was kind of the human toll that was taken in the background. "I remember watching the interview of him with Matt Lauer on 'The Today Show' and you know, we had heard about her and the prisoners for a long time, but no one really knew about him. But he does this interview and your heart sort of breaks. ![]() "I always found it interesting that within this sort of story cut out for a sensationalized tabloid, there is this man - the husband - whose wife has been called all different kinds of things in the current media and how embarrassing and difficult that must have been," Lange starts off, almost making one pity his character who is just a loving, trusting husband, completely oblivious to his wife's prison-escapades. To start off, Lyle is a seemingly simple man, as Lange would assure you. Actor Eric Lange attends the Season 2 premiere of Netflix's 'Narcos' at ArcLight Cinemas on August 24, 2016, in Hollywood, California. So why did she help the inmates? In exchange for risky, fulfilling, prison sex. ![]() Tilly was married to our aforementioned Lyle Mitchell, who was also a prison employee. Though eventually Matt was found and shot fatally at sight, and Sweat was found, shot, and taken into custody - here's how the story gets remarkably cut out for a Hollywood adaptation. It led to a $23 million manhunt and investigation, where investigators found that the two had dug out tunnels under their cells to escape, with the help of the prison tailor shop in-charge, Joyce 'Tilly' Mitchell. On June 6, 2015, prison inmates Richard Matt (Benicio del Toro) and David Sweat (Paul Dano) were found missing from their cells at the Clinton Correctional Facility, New York. The plot was one of the grittiest stories of the millennium. And thus emerges the brilliance of Eric Lange, as he beautifully brings out the shortcomings and significance of the character Lyle Mitchell, who was supposed to be just an audience from the sidelines. True, it was a striking contrast for Stiller - who is known for his comedic genius - to choose such a sad, gritty true story about vile criminals escaping prison and then meeting with equally negative outcomes, but he managed to amaze us all with a well-executed plot that goes beyond the realms of sensationalism.īut alongside Stiller's expertise, it is also the actors' impeccable portrayal of real-life characters that has earned rave reviews for the seven-episode series. ![]() Showtime's new limited series 'Escape at Dannemora' has managed to get a lot of buzz going - just like a dark, prison break drama from Ben Stiller was supposed to. ![]()
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