Mary Badham, who earned an Oscar nomination for playing Scout in the 1962 film adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, is weighing in on the controversy surrounding author Harper Lee’s latest novel Go Set a Watchman.
Badham, who read from Mockingbird and Watchman at a Tuesday event at New York City’s 92nd Street Y in honor of Watchman’s release, told Harper Lee: American Masters director Mary Murphy that the passages in the new book that reveal Atticus Finch to be racist are a product of the era in which they were written.
