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\nSome stories refuse to stay on the page.\u00a0<\/em>The Hollywood Reporter\u2019s\u00a0Beyond the Book\u00a0column explores what happens when\u00a0books\u00a0make the leap to screen and beyond \u2014 unpacking what changed, how it was done and why it matters with the creatives who made it.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\tIn The Little House on the Prairie<\/em>, a 6-year-old Laura Ingalls describes the experience of waking up in her family\u2019s cabin on the Osage Diminished Reserve amid a bout of the \u201cfever \u2018n\u2019 ague.\u201d As she lay in bed, \u201can arm lifted under her shoulders, and a black hand held a cup to her mouth.\u201d Above her, a \u201cface smiled, and a deep voice said, softly, \u2018Drink this, little girl,\u2019\u201d Laura recalls. \u201c\u2018Drink it. It will make you well.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAround the summer of 1870, the real Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family \u2014 father Charles, mother Caroline and sister Mary \u2014 contracted malaria and became confined to their cabin around Independence in Southeast Kansas. A man named Dr. George Tann (Wilder used just one \u201cn\u201d in the book) was a Black practitioner of eclectic medicine who lived about a mile from the family and administered the quinine that saved their lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tOutside of Wilder\u2019s autobiography, Pioneer Girl<\/em>, in which she writes that Tann delivered her sister Carrie, the doctor is present in only a single chapter of the Little House<\/em> series. The 1974 NBC series offered similarly brief portrayals, through separate single-episodic appearances of Black doctors like Dr. Caleb Ledoux (Don Marshall) and Dr. Tane (Don Pedro Colley).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBut in Netflix\u2019s upcoming adaptation, releasing July 9, actor Jocko Sims will portray the doctor Ingalls immortalized in her best-selling book across all of season one, capturing the \u201cdrawling\u201d voice and \u201crolling, jolly laugh\u201d of a man who left a warm impression \u2014 even on the Ingalls\u2019 beloved dog, Jack, \u201cwho hated strangers and never let one come near the house,\u201d but \u201cbegged him to come in.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn that way, the series pays homage to the life of a real Black man, who showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine describes as a \u201cconnector of different communities and different economic strata\u201d in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War. \u201cI often describe the show as the story of how America became America. It\u2019s not men riding around with guns, it\u2019s communities coming together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\tWriters Mixed Wilder\u2019s Vision and the Story of a Real Man to Build Dr. Tann\u00a0\t<\/h2>\n

\n\t\u201cI really wanted someone who moved between worlds, who had a very small life in Pennsylvania, realizing that he wanted more after being changed by the war, which led him to apprentice as a doctor. The West is calling to him in a different way than someone like Charles [Ingalls],but it\u2019s the same allure, which is that I can reinvent myself,\u201d Sonnenshine tells The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s the idea that war sends you to places that you never would\u2019ve gone, and how that opens up the world. That\u2019s where we started with a character who treated the white settlers, the Black settlers who were there, and also treated the Osage and the Cherokee. People now say that that couldn\u2019t be, but it was true.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBorn to a freed family likely in 1835, Tann worked on their Pennsylvania farm before marrying and having a child. Several aspects of his early life \u2014 his birth year, why he left his first family, a job as a peddler, service in the Union Army and how he became an eclectic physician \u2014 are unclear due to conflicts or gaps in historical documentation. But by 1869, records indicate he and his parents used the Homestead Act to move to Montgomery County, Kansas, where he would meet and save the Ingalls.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAs a practitioner of herbal remedies and physical therapy in Kansas and later the Cherokee Nation (now Oklahoma), he treated locals regardless of their race out of homes and businesses. He also opened at least one hospital with money reportedly earned from mineral rights on the land he purchased. With so little in Ingalls\u2019 book, Sonnenshine notes \u201cwe\u2019ve taken many things and then expanded upon them\u201d for the show, using Tann\u2019s available history and more to deliver their spin on the physician.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThat included using World War I and II memoirs to extrapolate for the post-Civil War set show in the absence of memoirs from the era. She also acquired a PDF of Eileen Charbo\u2019s out-of-print book, Doctor Fetched by the Family Dog: The Story of Dr. George A. Tann, Pioneer Black Physician. <\/em>These helped lay the show\u2019s groundwork for Tann\u2019s journey to becoming a doctor, \u201cmost certainly not from medical school, but by apprenticeship,\u201d the showrunner says, \u201clikely in the war, where he studied with doctors on the battlefield.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAvailable census records also helped flesh out Tann and other Black characters, like Barrett Doss\u2019 Emily Harrison, a general store owner and Tann\u2019s love interest whose name nods to Eliza Harris, the real doctor\u2019s second wife.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cKansas joined the Union in 1861, and there was a real question of whether it was going to join as a slave state or a free state. There were skirmishes between factions who moved there, specifically to try and make that happen on one side or the other. So there were lots of Black Americans living there, like the town of Nicodemus, which we reference in the season,\u201d she says. \u201cAmerica\u2019s never been a white space, but in particular, Kansas. You had a real mixing, especially after the war. People just don\u2019t know that because we haven\u2019t depicted it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile the writers leaned on historical accounts to better realize their Dr. Tann, Little House <\/em>readers will still recognize Wilder\u2019s doctor, especially in the spirit of Sims\u2019 performance. \u201cI read about [Dr. Tann] having this amazing bedside manner. That people really responded to him,\u201d Sonnenshine says. \u201cHe had this presence \u2014 a deep emotional connection to people. And Jocko, he\u2019s so warm and exudes such kindness, authority and intelligence. I was like, \u2018Yes, this is the person we\u2019re looking for to create this very rich inner life.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\tSims Worked With Multiple Departments to Balance Homage and Accuracy\u00a0\t<\/h2>\n

\n\t\u201cHe seemed like a nice guy, and I pictured him smiling a lot. In fact, they wrote that in the breakdown: \u2018Always has a special smile,\u2019\u201d Sims, who had not read Wilder\u2019s book before his casting, tells THR<\/em>. \u201cBut we\u2019re coming right out of the Civil War. I wanted to see what sort of mindset he\u2019d be in during this time in 1869, so I started reading Frederick Douglas\u2019 autobiography.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe also gave the Pennsylvania-born character a little \u201csouthern charm,\u201d a nod to the character and actor\u2019s journeys moving between two worlds. \u201cGrowing up in Texas my first 19 years and then living 18 years in Los Angeles, it was quite different,\u201d he tells THR<\/em>. \u201cThe Black community, we\u2019re not a monolith, and I definitely wanted to apply that idea to Dr. Tann.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tOn the Canadian set in Winnipeg, Manitoba,Sims completed cowboy camp, as well as dancing and singing lessons (the latter for a caroling scene with Doss that was cut). The props department created a book for the actor with period illustrations and drawings about frontier medical care, while the stunts department ensured that in a scene where Tann reattaches someone\u2019s shoulder, he was using period-accurate techniques. \u201cI was preparing the wrong way, and they were like, \u2018They didn\u2019t know that way. It was a lot rougher.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\nLittle House<\/em> costume designer Mitchell Travers says depicting Tann\u2019s physical appearance was about understanding what a free Black man looked like in 1869, even with limited visual references. \u201cWe were at this crossroads in American history where there was even more prejudice than we have now prevailing. So it was very important as a freed Black man to communicate to people who you are ahead of time,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tTann was also \u201cunlike a lot of other men in our story. He was a wealthier single man who could put that little bit of extra financing towards the way he was dressed,\u201d adds Travers. The costume designer notes the doctor could wear glasses, an expression of his wealth, as well as get a suit \u201cmade based on fashion plates of the time.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe was born into a free family, so it was important to me that we show a little bit of generational wealth,\u201d he adds. \u201cWe looked at silk prints in some of the things that we utilized \u2014 his ascots or his handkerchiefs. Some of the prints are from the 1840s, as if they were given to him by his father, because we wanted to create a sense of history for him using the textiles he\u2019d have access to.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTann\u2019s linen duster, in particular, was a piece that \u201cstruck the perfect chord\u201d for the costume designer, illustrating the doctor\u2019s duality \u2014 a man of finery facing the realities of work and the frontier. \u201cFor a modern eye used to seeing a doctor in a lab coat, we\u2019re trying to tell the story of a real doctor who practiced eclectic medicine. There is no lab coat for that, but we want the audience to experience him as somebody who could aid in a crisis, who they get a sense of relief from,\u201d Travers adds. \u201cThere is this bit of comfort that comes from the first visuals of this man, and the timing of his introduction on the show is really key.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\tDr. Tann Will Expand Wilder\u2019s and TV\u2019s Representation of Black Doctors\u00a0\t<\/h2>\n

\n\t\u201cHe\u2019s the first person to meet the Ingalls, and he\u2019s the last one to say goodbye,\u201d says Sonnenshine while discussing adapting Tann\u2019s role across season one. \u201cHe gives Charles some tough love and says, \u2018You\u2019ve got to make a community here because you can\u2019t do it on your own. That\u2019s a myth.\u2019 Charles takes that to heart because he trusts this person.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe continues: \u201cIt\u2019s the idea of community. Maybe you\u2019re not used to reaching out to different people, but the frontier is a new place where you\u2019re going to be in contact with people that you haven\u2019t met before and whose cultures you\u2019ve never experienced, and you\u2019re going to have to come together out here. That is the story of how we succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter wanting to be a doctor in high school and spending nearly a decade of his acting career portraying them in shows like The Resident<\/em> and New Amsterdam<\/em>, the opportunity to not only get more storyline than his counterparts, but project the idea of care and kinship in post-Civil War America, is meaningful, says Sims. Even if it wasn\u2019t thinking \u201cabout the gravitas of it\u201d while filming.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIt remains important, he says, as Black doctors still only constitute 5.7 percent of all U.S. physicians, despite their life-saving impact in healthcare environments, which the actor highlights through his website MoreBlackDoctors.org.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c[In New Amsterdam<\/em>], I didn\u2019t realize that I was actually affecting people on different levels who were watching. I would have mothers tweet me and say, \u2018Thank you for representing Dr. Reynolds. My son now wants to be a doctor.\u2019 I got to have this conversation at SeriesFest in Denver a couple of years ago, and helped raise money for a college fund,\u201d he recalls. \u201cFor this opportunity to come again and experience it in a different way was an honor. I credit the Friendlies, producers Trip [son of Ed Friendly, executive producer of the 1974 NBC series] and Rebecca, for wanting to tell Dr. Tann\u2019s story. Twenty years, Trip told me, he had been trying to get the show off the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTann\u2019s expanded presence could also inspire audiences to seek out more about the real man and the larger role of Black Americans in the West, just as it has for the actor. \u201cI\u2019m still learning things about him. He was adored. He was immersed in Native American cultures, speaking different languages while taking care of people,\u201d Sims says. \u201cI would welcome the opportunity to get to know him even more and spend more time digging and talking to historians.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut Sims says he\u2019s also ready for pushback. \u201cWe\u2019ll get some hate, people calling it woke. I\u2019ve already seen a couple of people say, \u2018Oh, they\u2019re adding these characters in.\u2019 Megyn Kelly took some shots before there was a page written, but I love what [star of the NBC series] Melissa Gilbert said back to her. It was like, \u2018I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve seen the original show, but we were pretty woke,\u2019\u201d Sims tells THR.<\/em> \u201cUnfortunately, that\u2019s the culture we\u2019re in nowadays, where there has been this concerted effort to diminish DEI efforts \u2014 and that\u2019s not even what this is. This is just telling true stories.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\tDr. Tann Offers a New Frontier for Little House on the Prairie<\/em> <\/h2>\n

\n\tThat will not be the only conversation around Little House<\/em>\u2019s adaptation of Tann. Over the years, the literary community has debated the continued inclusion of Wilder\u2019s dated, and at times offensive, language and depictions in her books tied to Black and Indigenous people. For Sonnenshine, when crafting her version of the doctor, she approached him through the \u201cgenerosity of spirit\u201d she felt while reading Wilder\u2019s books, essays and columns, and the author\u2019s ability to relay \u201cthe perspective of characters who were outsiders.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think she remembered this doctor very fondly\u2026 [and] just the small way in which she talked about this doctor reverentially was kind of radical in that time. That right there tells you a lot about that person,\u201d the showrunner says. \u201cThese books were written in the \u201930s, and that\u2019s a risk to write in the \u201930s. A lot of our thoughts about all that are also shaped by pop culture, which had an agenda to be a little bit more of a white space.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd while Sonnenshine is aware of how underlying biases can can be filtered through literature or newspaper articles, to her, Wilder still felt very humanist. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe really had this character who felt deeply and thought deeply about the people she\u2019d met on the frontier and who they were. Of course, there are problematic things in the books, but I felt like she was a very open-minded, expansive spirit of a person. In translating that into a show, that\u2019s the spirit I felt with her as an adult that would read very well. I never write anything that I don\u2019t think is plausible, and I believe that if you could talk to her today, she would say, \u2018I really valued all the things and people and ideas that I came into contact with.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Sims is aware his character might spark a number of feelings among the show\u2019s multiple audiences, he believes Tann\u2019s depiction can serve as a launching pad. \u201cThe first book and the first season are a great way to start the conversation by introducing Dr. Tann and letting all of the negativity and the positivity come out so we can have the conversation,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the meantime, the actor \u2014 whose role does not continue into the currently filming season two \u2014 sayshe\u2019s \u201cgoing to stay on the writers about\u201d a spin-off concept. \u201cI feel there\u2019s so much there, not just with working with and taking care of Indigenous peoples, but the hospitals that he had in Oklahoma and Kansas. Then the Civil War aspect. What a life. I feel people would be curious about and pleasantly surprised that there was this individual in the 1800s, a Black man, beloved by many cultures. How incredible would that story be?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nLittle<\/em> House<\/em> on<\/em> the<\/em> Prairie<\/em> releases on Netflix on July 9.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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