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Actor Jared Harris (left) in theChernobylHBO miniseries and the real Valery Legasov (right). Does the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the miniseries look like the real thing? Yes. According toNew York Timesscience writer Henry Fountain, who has visited the Chernobyl plant, Reactor Number 4's...
It’s very common for this to happen in adaptations of books and fictionalized accounts of real-world events. The HBO miniseriesChernobyl, which chronicles the 1986 nuclear disaster, does this with one of its characters. Writer Craig Mazin needed a way to represent the many scientists who invest...
who hanged himself, in hbo’s 2019 limited series chernobyl. the soviet inorganic chemist was gravely ill with radiation poisoning when he died, as depicted in the emmy-winning show—an act, as harris told vanity fair when he received an emmy nomination for the part, that was meant to “...