Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features EditorIn his new film “Stillwater,” co-writer/director Tom McCarthy wanted to present the image of an American hero – and then turn it on its head.
19.07.2021 - 19:59 / msn.com
Gallery: These actors rejected big roles (Espresso) He and his wife Luciana usually set a rule that he can only take work that will keep him away from his family for two weeks at most, but it's a rule the Elysium star broke for his latest movie, Stillwater, in which he plays an oil rig worker who heads to France to rescue his daughter from prison.
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.Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features EditorIn his new film “Stillwater,” co-writer/director Tom McCarthy wanted to present the image of an American hero – and then turn it on its head.
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Stillwater being falsely marketed as a Taken-style thriller.The film stars Damon as a blue-collar worker who tries to exonerate his daughter from a murder charge while she is imprisoned in France.“When my producer told me about the movie, and what it’s about, it’s a guy who goes to save his daughter, I’m like, ‘Oh, it’s gonna be a franchise thing?” Damon said on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast this week.The actor became concerned that Stillwater would be presented in a similar light in order to tap
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France, to visit his jailed daughter (Abigail Breslin), who has been imprisoned for her role in a scandalous Amanda Knox-styled murder case. Damon, a gruff, working-class roughneck, sticks around to seek justice for his daughter and find a mystery man who may have been the real killer.McCarthy, the director of “Spotlight,” “Win Win” and “The Station Agent,” had long pursued Damon for one of his movies.
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Matt Damon is wrapping up his time at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival!
CANNES – In Tom McCarthy’s “Stillwater,” Matt Damon plays Bill Baker, a “roughneck” (oil rig worker) from Oklahoma who is trying to help his daughter Allison prove her innocence for a murder she was convicted of in France. The film, which debuted to mixed reviews at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, attempts to mix humor into its sometimes messy dramatic thriller mix.
Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterMatt Damon went deep into red state identity politics to build his character in Tom McCarthy’s Cannes premiere “Stillwater.”To portray Oklahoma oil rig worker Bill Baker — a father sacrificing everything to free his daughter from a French prison — Damon spent an “absolutely critical” time doing research in the state, he said at a Friday press conference for the project.One of the biggest laughs at the film’s Thursday night premiere came when Damon’s character is