André Holland & Gemma Chan talk about their remarkably distinctive new movie ‘The Actor,’ written and directed by Duke Johnson (‘Anomalisa’). The pair talk about the liberation and problem of filming in such a surreal, allegorical world, talk about their theories of the mysterious movie, and contact on future tasks akin to ‘Josephine’ with Channing Tatum and ‘The Revisionist’ with Dustin Hoffman. See ‘The Actor’ in theaters beginning March 14, 2025, from NEON.
Primarily based on the novel ‘Reminiscence’ by Donald E. Westlake, ‘The Actor’ finds Paul Cole (André Holland) stranded in a mysterious small city with no reminiscence of who he’s or how he acquired right here. With out a sense of identification or objective, he begins from scratch and begins courting an area costume designer Edna (Chan). As bits and items of his previous slowly emerge, he makes an attempt to search out his method dwelling, however time is slippery, appearances can’t be trusted, and it’s unclear which of his identities is actual.