Once you go to see Mickey 17 in theaters this weekend, you may be forgiven when you see a bit of Donald Trump in Mark Ruffalo‘s character of Kenneth Marshall. Nevertheless, director Bong Joon-ho says that is nothing greater than your personal projection, as he was impressed by a variety of completely different historic dictators, and never anyone politician specifically. Primarily based on the 2022 novel by Edward Ashton, Mickey 17 stars Robert Pattinson as an endlessly cloned crew member of a spaceship whose job it’s to die time and again for analysis functions.
Talking with Leisure Weekly forward of the discharge of Mickey 17 on March 7, 2025, Joon-ho revealed that Ruffalo’s antagonistic character was impressed by “a mixture of many various politicians and dictators that we’ve got seen all through historical past,” that means that whereas he could seem lots like the present U.S. president in each his speech and mannerisms, he wasn’t particularly modeled after Trump.
“After we confirmed the movie in Berlin and talked to individuals from many various international locations, it appeared like individuals have been projecting essentially the most disturbing political chief onto the character of Marshall.”
Within the movie, Marshall is married to Gwen (Toni Collette), and for the Parasite director, he says the pair are one and the identical who’re “extra ridiculous and extra insane” than anybody you may discover in a political place proper now. “They transfer as a pair. To me, that was fairly vital,” he mentioned, including:
“So take into consideration the Ceaușescu couple from Romania and the Marcos couple from the Philippines. It is at all times very uncanny when dictators transfer as {couples}. It makes them much more ridiculous and extra terrifying. And it is real love that [the characters] have.”
Extra to come back…
Supply: Leisure Weekly