Gerald McRaney brands Alex Murdaugh ‘a man who had no soul’ after playing killer’s father

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Veteran actor Gerald McRaney stepped into the part of the formidable father at the heart of Hulu’s limited series “Murdaugh: Death in the Family,” a role he said required him to inhabit a family’s patriarch amid scandal.

McRaney, 78, spoke with Fox News Digital about how he approached portraying Randolph Murdaugh III, the patriarch who loomed over generations of privilege in South Carolina’s Lowcountry.

“You were dealing with a man who had no soul,” McRaney said of Randolph’s son, Alex. “Everything was done to impress other people with his success. It didn’t matter how he got that sort of approval.”

The Murdaugh family held influence over South Carolina’s judicial system for nearly a century. Three generations served as solicitors on the stat