grishom s best seller a time to kill. he was originally going to audition for a different part, but he pressed joel schumaker to the part that he read him for that role of jake brugant. and that is based on his own experience as a lawyer of john grish shop. i am young and inexperienced. and the studio execs balk at putting a relatively unknown in the lead. and then hep was personally approveded by john grish shop grish sham, and this is a big deal, because it is an expensive hollywood movie, and the lead play played by some guy nobody had heard of, and he was some guy from texas. and the marketing campaign heats up on the eve of the film s release in the summer of 1996. remember this name, and remember this face, and he s a star of a time to kill and his