André Holland & Gemma Chan discuss their remarkably unique new film ‘The Actor,’ written and directed by Duke Johnson (‘Anomalisa’). The pair discuss the liberation and challenge of filming in such a surreal, allegorical world, discuss their theories of the mysterious film, and touch on future projects such as ‘Josephine’ with Channing Tatum and ‘The Revisionist’ with Dustin Hoffman. See ‘The Actor’ in theaters starting March 14, 2025, from NEON.
Based on the novel ‘Memory’ by Donald E. Westlake, ‘The Actor’ finds Paul Cole (André Holland) stranded in a mysterious small town with no memory of who he is or how he got here. Without a sense of identity or purpose, he starts from scratch and begins courting a local costume designer Edna (Chan). As bits and pieces of his past slowly emerge, he attempts to find his way home, but time is slippery, appearances can’t be trusted, and it’s unclear which of his identities is real. more