After a decade of pushing to get the adaptation off the ground, Peter Dinklage The ticket is finally being realized. Based on Joe R. Lansdale’s 2013 novel of the same name, the Game of Thrones Alam first came on the adaptation in 2014 as a star and producer, along with Gianni Nunnari, Shannon Gaulding and Andre Lemmers. The movie wouldn’t gain proper steam until 2020, when pre-production began with director Elliott Lester and stars Noomi Rapace, Charlie Plummer and Sophia Lillis, though the trio would be replaced due to scheduling conflicts after the movie was impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Dinklage would move forward with the movie in 2023 with Yellowjackets‘ Juliette Lewis, Levon Hawke and Esmé Creed-Miles filling in the roles of the previously cast trio. The ticket is set in post-Civil War America, centered on an innocent young man named Jack, whose sister is taken by the brutal bandit Cutthroat Bill, and sets off in pursuit of both of them in the hopes of saving her. Along the way, Jack recruits the help of reluctant bounty hunter, Reginald Jones, his business partner and former slave, Eustace Howard, and a woman forced into prostitution, Jimmy Sue.
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Dinklage leads The ticket Cast as Reginald alongside Hawke as Jack, Lewis as Cutthroat Bill, Gbenga Akinnagbe as Eustace, BatgirlS Leslie Grace as Jimmy Sue, Creed-Miles as Jack’s sister Lula, Metallica frontman James Hetfield, Arliss Howard, Macon Blair and Ned Dennehy. The film, which brings a fresh approach to the western genre and Lansdale’s novel, is an exciting and compelling journey from start to finish.
In anticipation of the movie’s release, Screen Rant Interviewed producer/star Peter Dinklage and star Juliette Lewis to discuss The ticketWhat it was a passion project for Dinklage, Lewis’ transformation into the villain Cut throat Bill, and put together the action for the film.
Dinklage has “Always wanted to be in the West”
Screen Rant: I loved it The ticketI was just hooked from start to finish. Peter, I would like to turn to you first. You’ve been attached to this project for about a decade now, and I know you’ve been very passionate about getting this one off the ground. What was it about Joe’s book that really spoke to you to want to stick with this project for so long?
Peter Dinklage: Well, it’s such a fun story, it’s such a thriller. I love the idea that it’s more of a heart of darkness story. It is a journey down that river, in this case, snowy trails. For me, as an actor, television affords [time]It happens over the course of many seasons and many hours, but in a movie, you still have to be a different person from start to finish. What this does is that it changes everyone involved in the story from who they were in the beginning.
For the young people, they have to age very quickly. What they go through really accelerates that. And for my character, the idea of ​​letting love into his heart, for someone who has built really cement walls around him, that, hopefully, that comes across. But yes, and selfishly, as an actor, I always wanted to be in the West, and the character was such a rich character, and I wouldn’t let it go.
Lewis went through a “Shape-shifting“Process for Cut Throat Bill
I’m glad you stuck with it because you just killed it in the movie, as did you, Juliet, and I’d like to turn to you next. You really turned into Cut Throat Bill in the film, and I’d love to hear what it was about her and her journey that drew you to want to play her?
Juliette Lewis: I was so lucky, because all the ingredients were there, and that’s so rare in writing. But where she came from, her past, the three in such wildness was something I had to find on an energetic level, because I really wanted to have those dead eyes. That sort of black soul behind her eyes is very scary, and so that’s kind of the molecular – I don’t know, the shape-shifting. I can get quite metaphysical about the process, but I don’t know how you just aim for it.
I was aiming for something, and what helps you immensely is the scarring and the throat and the voice and the ingredients that I was given. Everyone has to think she’s male, and that her legend of being so scary. I really wanted to believe it. I wanted to make people believe that. I don’t want them to think I’m just a cartoon actor who’s cool. So, I was trying to form shift, for lack of a better phrase. And the whole team that was involved helped the creative process in doing that.
Peter Dinklage: You want to feel a sense of the story of the violence inflicted on both of our characters, rather than just two violent people. It’s the story of the violence and how it manifests in two very different people, which is fun.
I also wanted to ask, how much involvement did you have to find out what some of your scarring was? Because, obviously, that seems like it would be in the script, but do you have any input on specific ones that you think she should have had?
Juliette Lewis: This is very the director, and therefore all of us together in placement, we tested it. But also that she was called Cut Throat Bill, we definitely had that, and it had to be something that would have – I liked that it mangled the voice. But it’s done with the makeup department and the director, because you want everything to be super believable. It was really exciting to make this.
Reginald and Eustace’s sibling dynamic came “Really easy“For Dinklage & Akinnagbe
Peter, I will return to you. You remember your character’s cement walls and trying to find love. I really like the dynamic you have with Gbenga throughout the movie, it’s a real brotherly dynamic, but, as you say, Reginald is worried, he’s not ready to let that in. Filming?
Peter Dinklage: Well, Gbenga came really easily. I didn’t know Gbenga before we started filming, so I’m always a little nervous about the personality that’s going to walk into the room. But we immediately bonded and bonded, and we were all cold in Calgary, so we had each other to keep warm. But no, it’s really easy. It was easy, and that’s due to Gbenga, but also, you need that kind of levity in a world as dark, and hopefully, Gbenga and I’s relationship – each one of us alone is not funny, but when we get Together, these characters, they don’t even know that they are humorous.
But just the nature of their back and forth, I think, elevates it a little bit for the audience to enjoy. And this is the story between the two of us. We have been together for a long time, the characters did not meet until a week ago. So, there is also that ease to it, and not only how the world sees itself, but how the world sees that other person and how they navigate that and protect each other.
Lewis & Creed-Miles would “Take care of each other“Between names
Juliet, I will return to you. You and Esmé also share a lot of scenes together, but they’re obviously very different from Peter and Gbenga, in that they’re very fraught and filled with tension, but I almost feel like Cut Throat Bill sees a potential parallel to himself in Lula. So I’d love to hear what it was like to find that rapport with Esmé and the dynamic during filming.
Juliette Lewis: It’s interesting to play a fractured soul because the layers to her relationship with Lou are so weird. For me, I felt like she projected, she was seeing something of herself that she could never save or retain, so she had to destroy it. So it’s all the combination of things, and also that she is extremely lonely, but also she can only express love through pain. It’s such a wild combination.
So, Esmé was such a wonderful scene partner, and between the names, we would just take care of each other. We are together on the mountain, we are happy together and we would just huddle together. And once you’re in action, you’re creating this universe, so it’s a real partnership when you’re making difficult movies with difficult scenes to act. She’s so beautiful, such a beautiful performer, and so I’m really excited for people to see her work in this as well.
Reginald’s Violence is always about efficiency and “Not be free”
Peter, I wanted to get back to you because you get some great action sequences in the film. I especially love the opening bar fight where you take this guy down with ease. What was it like working with the stunt team to actually choreograph the sequences?
Peter Dinklage: Yeah, always hats off to the stunt team on any movie where there’s fighting or falling off a cliff or anything like that, because they do all the hard work Stuff, and they prepare you to look as cool as possible, and they don’t complain when they get hit in the face. [Laughs] But, yeah, no, it just takes a little time. It was an indie film, it’s a low budget film, so time was not on our side. But I like to work that way because it keeps the actors on our toes, less time in the trailer, more time on set.
So, we choreographed that really quickly, like the day before. And this is also where the camera really helps with all that stuff. The most important thing for me, character-wise, was just about not being gay, and getting out of the room. Because if my character continues to stay in the room, it will not be good for him. So, it’s a matter of efficiency and getting out, and that’s why he’s still alive, why he’s a survivor.
Because if he had an ego about it, he would be dead by now, because he would have gotten into trouble, and it would have caught him. But for this, it is as fast and violent. In real life, it is very fast. It happens suddenly and very quickly. If you’ve ever been unfortunate enough to experience it, see it first hand, it’s not free, it’s fast and painful and over much faster than it started. So, that was important to me, and I think Elliott and everybody did a good job with that.
About The ticket
When fierce bounty hunter Reginald Jones (Peter Dinklage) is recruited by a desperate man to track down a ruthless killer known only as Cutthroat Bill (Juliet Lewis), he rallies a band of unlikely heroes including a grave-digging ex- Slave and a pit-digging ex-slave and a street-smart woman-for-hire. Together they embark on a perilous quest to track down Cutthroat Bill which leads them into the deadly “no-man’s-land” known as…the Thicket.
A film about revenge, justice and unlikely companionship, THE THICKET also stars Esmé Creed-Miles (Hanna), Levon Hawke (Blink Twice), Macon Blair (I Care A Lot), Andrew Schulz (You People), James Hetfield (Metallica) ), David Midthunder (On Sacred Ground), with Arliss Howard (Mank), with Leslie Grace (In the Heights), and Gbenga Akinnagbe (The Old Man).
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Levon Hawke, Leslie Grace & Gbenga Akinnagbe
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Director Elliott Lester
The ticket is now in theaters and will make its VOD debut on September 24th.
Source: Screen Rant Plus