Netflix's Unabomber film digs into Kaczynski's Harvard years
"I didn't even know he went to Harvard until I read the script; I think most people don't," Tremblay told Tudum. "But he was a mathematical genius when he was 16." Kaczynski enrolled at Harvard at 16 in 1958, and from 1959 to 1962 he was one of 22 undergraduates subjected to psychologist Henry Murray's deliberately hostile interrogation sessions, research historians have long linked to the CIA's MKUltra program. Russell Crowe plays Murray in the film, which director Janus Metz cuts between those Harvard years and the FBI's eventual manhunt for Kaczynski, the longest and most expensive in the bureau's history.
- ▪"I didn't even know he went to Harvard until I read the script; I think most people don't," Tremblay told Tudum.
- ▪"But he was a mathematical genius when he was 16." Kaczynski enrolled at Harvard at 16 in 1958, and from 1959 to 1962 he was one of 22 undergraduates subjected to psychologist Henry Murray's deliberately hostile interrogation sessions, rese
- ▪Russell Crowe plays Murray in the film, which director Janus Metz cuts between those Harvard years and the FBI's eventual manhunt for Kaczynski, the longest and most expensive in the bureau's history.
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Netflix's Unabomber film digs into Kaczynski's Harvard years Ellsworth Toohey 5:45 am Thu Jul 30, 2026 Unabomber Netflix Harvard — Philippe Bosse/Netflix (press image) Jacob Tremblay is playing a teenage Ted Kaczynski in Netflix's upcoming UNABOMBER, and researching the role took him somewhere he didn't expect: Harvard. "I didn't even know he went to Harvard until I read the script; I think most people don't," Tremblay told Tudum. "But he was a mathematical genius when he was 16." Kaczynski enrolled at Harvard at 16 in 1958, and from 1959 to 1962 he was one of 22 undergraduates subjected to psychologist Henry Murray's deliberately hostile interrogation sessions, research historians have long linked to the CIA's MKUltra program.
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