André Holland is a busy man. His latest TV collection The Huge Cigar and Terminator Zero had been nice, and his new movie The Actor is a private favourite, a movie noir masterpiece. He’s additionally starring on this 12 months’s The Dutchman, As soon as Once more… (Statues By no means Die), and Love, Brooklyn, together with the movie The Revisionist, which stars Holland alongside Dustin Hoffman, Alison Brie, and Tom Sturridge. Like The Actor, The Revisionist offers with the blurring of traces between artwork and life, fact and fiction, id and efficiency; Holland performs the titular actor in The Actor and a author in The Revisionist. Although, as Holland advised MovieWeb in a latest interview, the 2 movies are totally different in some ways.
“It is utterly totally different, and it is nonetheless very a lot [happening],” mentioned Holland (who can also be at present attending Harvard Divinity College). “We simply completed perhaps six weeks in the past, one thing like that, or perhaps two months. However I hear the edit goes very well.” Holland continued, explaining how, whereas stylistically totally different, The Revisionist shares comparable themes to The Actor:
“It positively is one, additionally, that has questions round id and belonging at its core. And yeah, you are proper, the man I play is an artist. He is a author who finds himself caught and is introduced with a possibility to get himself unstuck, though it runs the danger of destabilizing a few of his relationships which are necessary to him. It’ll be fascinating, one to positively take a look at, and hopefully we’ll be again to speak with you about it.”
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Extra About ‘The Revisionist’
The synopsis for The Revisionist, in response to Deadline, reads as follows:
“In The Revisionist, Elise, a profitable novelist, does what so many writers do: she manipulates and transforms the folks in her life into the characters she wants for her story. As she blurs the road between fiction and actuality, her world descends into secrets and techniques, lies, and outright betrayal. The mission is an exploration of the psychological lengths to which a author will go to attain their artwork.”
In accordance with writer-director Alex Vlack’s personal web site, the 4 primary characters are all writers who use one another for his or her work. His web site describes The Revisionist as, “A characteristic movie about 4 writers who all use each other to inform their tales, to disastrous private hurt however nice dramatic impact.” That appears to line up with Holland’s description of his character as a author.
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The Revisionist will likely be one among 87-year-old actor Dustin Hoffman’s three movies to possible be launched in 2025. The others embody auteur Peter Greenaway’s movie Tower Tales, wherein he additionally seems to play a author (starring reverse Helen Hunt). There’s additionally Hoffman’s crime thriller Tuner, which stars Leo Woodall as a proficient piano tuner whose abilities result in his involvement in a safe-cracking operation. These observe final 12 months’s Megalopolis and Kung Fu Panda 4 (because the voice of Shifu), making 2024 and 2025 very busy years for the actor, who had solely starred in two movies since 2017. Watch this house for extra details about The Revisionist, and see The Actor in theaters now from NEON.