Nevertheless, Ritter will play a young Mr. Allman in the upcoming biopic Midnight Rider: The Gregg Allman Story.
Others
cast in the film, which is still in pre-production, include William
Hurt as the elder Gregg Allman and Wyatt Russell as a young Duane,
Gregg’s older brother.
But back to the issue at hand:
Oklahoma
native Tyson Ritter is playing Gregg Allman. Like, that dude from
Stillwater who wrote “Swing, Swing.” If that doesn’t make you beg for
some licks on the whipping post, we don’t know what will.
Okay, we’re probably being too hard on the guy. Maybe his performances in TV’s House, M.D. and 90210 display his range in ways we never would have imagined.
This article appears in Jan 15-21, 2014.