Mark Mylod’s The Menu, from a script by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy, has become one of Searchlight Pictures’ best success stories since its release last month, racking up the company’s biggest opening weekend since Slumdog Millionaire.
20.11.2022 - 05:57 / deadline.com
John Leguizamo is back on the big screen with The Menu and he recently opened up about who he based his character on.
Leguizamo plays the character of Georgie Diaz, an action star past his prime. To get into the mindset of the fictional character, the Encanto voice actor got inspiration from Steven Seagal.
“I’ve met lots of these stars like that, maybe before they were washed up,” he told Entertainment Weekly. “I mean, now they’re washed up. I kind of based mine on Steven Seagal. I had a bad run-in with him. We did a movie together. It was Executive Decision. He’s kind of a horrible human.”
Executive Decision is a 1996 film directed by Stuart Baird that starred Kurt Russell, Halle Berry, Leguizamo and Seagal, among others. The film has a 63% Rotten Tomatoes score and earned Seagal a Razzie Award in the Worst Supporting Actor category but lost to Marlon Brando for The Island of Dr. Moreau.
Leguizamo’s experience with Seagal on Executive Decision might have been clouded by their “bad run-in,” but his time working with The Menu’s director Mark Mylod was something he thoroughly enjoyed.
“He’ll give you these perfect little notes that fine-tune your performance to give him what he needs,” he said. “Yeah, it was a great experience. That’s why I think Succession is such a great success and such a great piece of work, because of him.”
The Menu revolves around a couple (Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult) that travels to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef (Ralph Fiennes) has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
Mark Mylod’s The Menu, from a script by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy, has become one of Searchlight Pictures’ best success stories since its release last month, racking up the company’s biggest opening weekend since Slumdog Millionaire.
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Are we in the middle of a John Leguizamo renaissance … or did we never leave one?I love a philosopher interviewer. I’ve always been threatening to be renaissancing and doing as much as I can. I’m always doing as much as I can.Well between this and “The Menu,” that’s pretty good.Oh, I mean they’re quality picks, which I’m really happy about.
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The highly anticipated “The Super Mario Bros.” will be the second American film adaptation of the popular Nintendo game. After the disastrous 1993 live-action “Super Mario Bros.” movie, which starred Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo as Mario Mario and Luigi Mario (yeah…), a new film version of the video game franchise languished in development hell until reports of the video game developer discussing with Illumination entertainment to do an animated film centering around the popular iconic character gamers grew to know and love. Chris Pratt and Charlie Day will be voicing Mario and Luigi, while Anya Taylor-Joy plays Princess Peach.
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EXCLUSIVE: Searchlight’s absurdist genre comedy The Menu got off to a promising start with $1M+ in Thursday night previews, we hear. That number is up there with recent comps such as Barbarian, which did $850K on its Thursday night before a $10.5M opening, and The Northman, another Anya Taylor-Joy movie, which posted $1.35M before a $12.2M start.
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