- Title: 'No Sudden Move' cast on twists and filming in COVID
- Date: 30th June 2021
- Summary: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (JUNE 18, 2021) (REUTERS VIA ZOOM) (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTOR DON CHEADLE SAYING: (DID YOU SAY YES TO THIS FILM WITHOUT READING THE FILM) "What's interesting is during the time between we started and stopped because we were going to go before the whole COVID, you know, took over and we had a break of many months where we weren't sure if we were even going to be able to make the film. Steven sent me two more movies that he had written during this period of time. He was like, don't give me a computer and time. He sent two other movies to me that are actually pretty good, and I hope he figures out a way to make them. So he's prolific and really on his game all the time."
- Embargoed: 14th July 2021 14:39
- Keywords: BENICIO DEL TORO STEVEN SODERBERGH don cheadle film jon hamm movie no sudden move
- Location: UNKNOWN FILM LOCATIONS / NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- City: UNKNOWN FILM LOCATIONS / NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- Country: USA
- Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment,Film,United States
- Reuters ID: LVA006EJLD6Q5
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:EDIT CONTAINS PROFANITY
Oscar winning director Steven Soderbergh brings together an all-star cast for crime drama "No Sudden Move" in which a bunch of criminals are called on to carry out a heist that goes wrong.
Benicio Del Toro, Don Cheadle, Ray Liotta, Jon Hamm, Brendan Fraser star in the movie, set in 1954 Detroit, where the robbers embark on a mission to find out who hired them.
The actors and co-stars Julia Fox and Frankie Shaw spoke to Reuters about the movie's unexpected twists and filming during COVID.
The film will be released on July 1st on HBOMax.
Below are excerpts edited for length and clarity.
Q: Did you agree to this film without reading the script?
Del Toro: "For me it was, Don Cheadle in the film, Steven Soderbergh ... I said yes before I read the script. I assumed that Don reads the script for me and then I go."
Hamm: "We shot this movie in deep pandemic in October, November in Detroit ... you couldn't be in better hands than to be in Steven's (Soderbergh) hands ... he works tirelessly, he is editing while he's shooting. He's got everything in his head ... That feels very good in a mode where we were very much uncertain about everything, this felt very certain."
Q: What was filming during the pandemic like?
Shaw: "The crew was pretty pared down because of COVID, which also led to probably more intimacy because there weren't like a lot of people around."
Q: Did you figure out the twist in the film when you first read the script?
Liotta: "What you think might be happening doesn't exactly happen, it goes off into a different direction, so you never really know what's going on ... who knows who."
Q: Can you describe the film in one word?
Fraser: "I'd say that this is a chronological or a fable there of, of ecology. Everyone wants something desperately in this film and everyone gets what they deserve."
Hamm: "Suspense ... it's a very complicated story and it pays off."
Cheadle: "Entertaining."
Del Toro: "Fun."
Fox: "I would say greed."
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