![]() ![]() The next – look, I’ve had a chance to do stuff like. When asked about his post-James Bond life, Craig – who has indicated, but not confirmed, this might be his last turn as Bond – said he’s still busy with various aspects of “No Time to Die.” “So, I ignored that and did what I did.”Ĭraig wrapped in October his fifth James Bond film, “No Time to Die,” and the 25th in the series. “Literally, there is a line that says Benoit Blanc and then something like, has the subtlest and silkiest of Southern accents,” Craig, who based Blanc’s speech style on Southern historian Shelby Foote, told Variety. For the English-born Craig, picking up the American Southern accent was his own unique interpretation of the character Johnson wrote in the script, he said. Hopefully, in a way where we can all go see it and kind of laugh at ourselves a little bit.”Īlso making an appearance is a Southern accent from Daniel Craig, who plays a detective, Benoit Blanc. That means when the family has a few glasses of wine, they argue about the stuff we’re all arguing about with our family after a few glasses of wine. “That means we openly talk about a lot of the stuff that we’re talking about today. ![]() “The thing started with wanting to do an Agatha Christie-style mystery, but the thing that really got me rolling with it was, let’s set it in America in 2019,” Johnson told Variety. Timeliness fast-tracked the movie for director Rian Johnson, he said. It just talks about that very dismissive part of her heritage.” “It’s done in a kind of loving way, but the truth of the matter, it’s a terrible thing to do to someone. Everybody in the family claims a different heritage for her, which is a horrible thing to do. “There is this very funny running joke about where Marta is from. Marta’s role is important to the film, Jamie Lee Curtis, who plays Plummer’s daughter, told Variety. So, I was just happy to read something so surprising and positive and new and fresh.”ĭe Armas’ character, Marta Cabrera, spends considerable time with Plummer’s patriarch, when many of his blood relatives, including Chris Evans as Plummer’s jerky grandson, are too self-absorbed. Definitely in this set of a wealthy family, that’s not a character that you can even imagine succeeding and getting out of the whole situation well. “Or they don’t really reflect our community or our strengths. It’s just almost impossible to see – or at least the previous Latina, Spanish-speaking parts that I’ve seen before, they’ve really not necessarily had the best qualities or possibilities,” de Armas said. With a fully formed, fleshed-out character, de Armas sees roles such as hers as uncommon, she told Variety at Thursday’s “Knives Out” premiere in Westwood, Calif. One key player in the shift is Ana de Armas, who portrays a caretaker for Christopher Plummer’s character in the film. ![]() Sharp, current political and social satire lies at the heart of Lionsgate’s “ Knives Out,” a darkly comedic whodunnit that often aims to upend Hollywood’s cultural conventions. ![]()
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