Biopics often take creative liberties with the central subject’s life story.

However, musician Daniel Thompson feels the Johnny Cash film Walk The Line largely gets it right. 

“It’s a reasonably accurate telling of that period of Johnny Cash’s life,” he said.

“It’s pretty truthful and pretty brutal in the way it presents some of what happened in his life. 

“I think that’s why people responded so well to it.”

Central Coast-based Thompson is an authority on the subject, given he’s starred as the Man in Black in the ‘Johnny Cash: The Concert’ tribute show for several years. 

Following a sold-out, one night only performance at the Sydney Opera House in 2016, the show is national again in 2017.

The Walk The Line show will feature all the Cash songs as performed in the 2005 movie and on its soundtrack album, as well as hits and highlights from Cash’s entire career.

The show is delivered in a storytelling-type fashion, but Thompson emphasises that he’s a singer, not an actor. 

“We did that one-off show, which was to really celebrate that, and what people love about Johnny Cash and the way that they found their way into his music,” he said. 

“And a lot of people did find it through the film.”