The exclusive clip shows the future astronauts as they take their first steps in becoming the historical Mercury Seven.
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So it’s a period of about a little less than two years.
Visually,The Right Stuffrecalls the fell and style ofCatch Me If You Canand AMC’sMad Men.
But the comparisons don’t end there.
Lafferty hints that McDorman’s Shepard shares a number of qualities with Don Draper (portrayed byJon Hamm).
He adds, “Their lives outside of work are also a big part of the story.
For Glenn, we have a guy who is dealing with so much unbridled ambition.
He was an ace pilot in the Korean war, a decorated pilot,” McDorman explains.
“He had also been on some game shows so he was well acquainted with the spotlight.
Where Shephard was all about the work and all about the methodical nature of being an efficient test pilot.
Glenn was a squeaky clean, Christian man and Shepard wasn’t.
It was very much this rivalry between competing ideologies and ethos.
And both were incredibly both still incredibly cutthroat and ambitious.”
Calling them adrenaline junkies would be putting it mildly.
“In the first season ofThe Right Stuff, the Mercury Seven were seven white guys.
We hopeThe Right Stuffis the launch of a story but it isn’t the full story.”
And as far as Barbara Eden is concerned, oh my God!
That would be a dream come true too.
