How Josh Rivera Found Humanity in NFL Murderer Aaron Hernandez

Few stories lend themselves to sensationalism like that of Aaron Hernandez.

He was a rising star, a football hero, and an all-time great. And he was a criminal, a murderer, and a cautionary tale.

How do you square away those extremes? How do you find, beneath all of those titles and designations, a human? That was the challenge facing Josh Rivera, the actor playing Hernandez in American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez, the new installment of Ryan Murphy’s American Story series chronicling the jaw-dropping rise and fall of a young athlete.

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