Working on ‘People v. O.J. Simpson’ convinced Rob Morrow that he was guilty after all

It took Rob Morrow starring in a critically acclaimed true crime series about O.J. Simpson for him to believe the former professional football player was guilty of murdering his estranged wife and her friend.

The Emmy Award-nominated actor said “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” changed his view of the 1995 case, which went down in history as “the trial of the century.”

Morrow, whose credits include “The Bucket List,” “Entourage” and “Billions,” portrayed attorney Barry Scheck, a member of Simpsons defense team – also known as The Dream Team – in the 2016 miniseries.

The Ryan Murphy-helmed production was an eye-opening experience for the New Rochelle, N.Y., native.

“It made me realize how the jurisprudence process favors money. And I saw the steps of how it does,” Morrow revealed during a recent interview on the “At Home with The Creative Coalition” podcast. “And it also confirmed — you know, doing all the research I was doing — was that it was irrefutable that he did it.”

“There was no – truly in any kind of objective sense – there’s no way that he didn’t do it,” the 58-year-old actor continued. “The only thing that was possible, based on my research, was that he could have been helped. The scale of the attack was so big and vicious that it’s possible – and based on some other forensic stuff and hearsay – it seems like he could have had some help.”

The FX series starred Cuba Gooding Jr., Sarah Paulson, David Schwimmer, Sterling K. Brown, John Travolta and Selma Blair and brought in ratings gold for the basic cable channel.

The widely watched murder trial the series was based on has become a touchstone in American culture throughout the years.

Morrow, who gained notoriety for his role as Dr. Joel Fleischman in the CBS series “Northern Exposure,” told host Robin Bronk that the overall experience on the series was a pleasant one.

“Again, here I am with John Travolta, the reason I became an actor, and I’m acting with him. Right? I had a similar experience with Jack Nicholson,” he shared. “It’s a fascinating sense of confirming that you are on some kind of path that is right for you. Because the signposts are consistent. And so when I was acting with John Travolta, having him been the catalyst for me becoming an actor, I was like, ‘Oh my God. This is clear’ [...] It was great because I was obsessed with the O.J. trial when it was going on.”

“And those sets, and the costumes, and all of the amazing actors – everything was so accurate,” Morrow furthered. “Many a day, I was just sitting in the courtroom with nothing to do but watch and I would find myself, like, in this weird kind of deja vu of having seen all of this on TV when the trial was going on and now I was in it.”

Elsewhere in the wide-ranging interview session, Morrow dished about his regrets for allowing plum roles in blockbusters such as “Jurassic Park 2,” “Independence Day” and “The West Wing” slip through his fingers.