"You See the Ambition" William Franklyn-Miller & Kelsey Grammer on 'Young Washington' [17:42]

YouTube ^ | June 23, 2026 | Fandango (Fandango's Big Ticket)

[SunkenCiv]

William Franklyn-Miller, Kelsey Grammer, and director Jon Erwin join Fandango correspondent Nikki Novak to discuss their upcoming historical war drama, 'Young Washington'. William Franklyn-Miller shares his experience embodying the patriot George Washington before he became the Father of a Nation, Kelsey Grammer details why his character Lord Fairfax would invest this young man with such responsibility, and director Jon Erwin explains why the story of the Revolutionary War is so enthralling for himself and audiences. 'Young Washington' hits theaters July 3! 

"You See the Ambition" William Franklyn-Miller 
& Kelsey Grammer on 'Young Washington' | 17:42 
Fandango (Fandango's Big Ticket) | 48,457 views | June 23, 2026

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; History; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: america250; franklynmiller; history; jonerwin; kelseygrammer; lordfairfax; nikkinovak; thegeneral; therevolution; youngwashington

[SunkenCiv]

I may go see this today.

[Magnum44]

I have heard good things about it. May be into next week before I can see it

[SunkenCiv]

"First in War, First in Peace, and First in the Hearts of His Countrymen" -- Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee

[Tell It Right]

Saw it over the weekend. It is a truly good movie.

Only the most detailed history buffs can find faults (poking fun at myself LOL). Little things like IMHO the movie didn't point to how much fur trading competition played into jockeying over the Ohio valley. The movie just kept it simple as motivated by land grab ambitions (of which there were, to be sure, just not solely that).

But I was pleasantly surprised at some of the little history facts they did put into the movie. Things I won't put here as spoilers.

[Ditto]

I saw it on Sunday. It was excellent. Don’t miss it.

[Resolute Conservative]

Maybe so, but I don’t trust any “man” with a hyphenated name (Franklyn-Miller). I know Grammer is right of center.

[ConservativeMind]

We are catching it, this evening.

[caprock]

Yes! Saw it Saturday. Definitely a MUST SEE!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks all!

[ClearCase_guy]

It’s a very good movie.

[rlmorel]

I would highly recommend it. I saw it the day it was released (July 3rd) and loved it.

I started a thread about it you can see here:

LINK TO FR THREAD: Young Washingon Released Today (VANITY)

And there was another thread started here (although I greatly dislike Roger Ebert, the thread had good discourse):
LINK TO FR THREAD: Film review: "Young Washington" - Celebrate the 250th birthday of the U.S. with a solid historical drama

It was rewarding to me, to see last night a free for viewing roundtable discussion on Amazon Prime that included the Director and a bunch of historians who have spent years studying Washington's life, that I as a viewer of the movie they created, I fully comprehended the message they were trying to convey in the movie that most people don't know about Washington.

Most people have a mythological view of Washington which is fine as far as it goes, but only sees him (apart from the mythical/apocryphal "cutting down of the cherry tree) from right around the time he was appointed head of the Continental Army by the neophyte Congress.

The movie shows the events early in his life that built the foundation for who he became when the wartime mythology began.

And that explains a lot about who we see in the mythology of him, and almost all of that is amazingly true, which says a lot about him.

I have always been a huge fan of Washington, and view him as one of the greatest men who has ever lived, so I have read a lot about the part of Washington's life that they portray in the excellent movie!

What was rewarding to me was listening to these experts review the movie, and that with about 100% reliability, I was picking up exactly what the movie makers in this movie were trying intentionally to lay down for the viewers...it made me think I have read all the right books. I have done all the things, visited various battlefields, visited Mount Vernon, and so on...I even had a copy of his "Washington's Rules of Civility" which I kept on my desk at work for years. (Some of it is hilarious and quaint to read in the 21st Century, but...much of it is very good advice indeed that he copied and compiled from various books of his day in an effort to improve himself.

When I watch a movie about events in the past and detect Leftist historical revisionism, even a sniff of it, I tend to shut the movie, documentary, or book down. That was what so irritated me about the Ken Burns “The American Revolution” series. I didn’t know he was a Leftist when he made the Civil War series, but the stench of his Leftism grew stronger and stronger in each successive work he put out, and when I heard him say making it “...forced him to revisit everything he thought he knew about the American Revolution...” I suspected that I knew exactly where he was going with that, and it was confirmed when it was released and people saw it.

The story of the USS Indianapolis (sunk at the end of WWII after she delivered the A-Bomb to Tinan, and made famous to many modern day Americans by “Quint” in the the hit movie “Jaws” where he discusses the shark attacks) is one of particular interest to me, having been able to spend a few hours talking with one of the survivors back in the Nineties when he was one of my patients.

When the movie “Men of Courage” (with Nicholas Cage playing Captain McVay) came out, I was excited to see it. When I did, I could only watch the first 15 minutes or so before shutting it off. They made it all about the racial conflict between black and white sailors, instead of the incredible story of survival that it was. It totally disgusted me.

What I appreciated with “Young Washington” is that that they did have specific references to slaves in it (as well as black men serving with the troops) and instead of making the movie all about that (which is invariably when Leftists like Ken Burns do when they get their hands on it) they framed the racial element in a historically accurate way.

[Psalm 73]

"We are catching it, this evening."

You won't be disappointed.

Americans really ARE the coolest cats on the planet.

[Charles Martel]

There are several British actors in the cast (for accent authenticity, I suppose); they do seem more inclined toward the hyphenated names. That’s a much older tradition with them, and for different reasons than are usually involved west of the Atlantic.

[RebelTXRose]

It’s a great movie! We saw it on Saturday. Theater was packed