David Oyelowo talks playing the real man at the heart of Taylor Sheridan's buzzy new show 'Lawmen: Bass Reeves': 'I simply couldn't believe that this was a historical character'

Lawmen: Bass Reeves is based on the true story of one of the first Black deputy U.S. marshals west of the Mississippi River.

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