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Exclusive interview: Ryan Gosling and Russo Brothers talk new Netflix film
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Gray area: Actor Ryan Gosling plays the nameless assassin known as Six who works under the CIA's Sierra program in 'The Gray Man'. (Netflix/Courtesy of Stanislav Honzik) (Netflix/Courtesy of Stanislav Honzik)
Actor Ryan Gosling plays a skillful yet unwilling assassin in the new Netflix original by superstar directorial team Russo brothers.
As a production company, you have to be daring (and a bit mad) to spend US$200 million for a movie during the pandemic, especially when it means that it will be your most expensive movie ever made.
The Gray Man is a product of that “madness”. A product of the Marvel director-duo Joe and Anthony Russo, this newest action-thriller from Netflix involves over seven locations across the globe from Los Angeles in the United States to Prague and a star-studded cast including Chris Evans, Ana de Armas and lead actor Ryan Gosling.
“It seemed sort of impossible what [the Russo brothers] were trying to do,” Gosling chuckled during a media roundtable on July 12.
“Because when I got the script, we were in the middle of the pandemic. Movie theaters, film productions were closing down, and they sent me this script asking me if I wanted to make this globe-trotting, giant blockbuster,” he added.
The famed actor, prominent in both independent and Hollywood movies, gets to fight Chris Evans, who sheds his Avengers’ hero persona for a sociopathic, Harvard-graduate assassin in this movie.
“I think we all found it good, wicked fun to try to come up with a character that was the polar opposite of what Captain America was,” Anthony Russo said. “Lloyd Hansen really couldn’t get further from what Captain America is.”
