Holt McCallany & Julianne Nicholson Join Rami Malek In 20th Thriller ‘Amateur’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Holt McCallany (Nightmare Alley) and Julianne Nicholson (Blonde) are the newest additions to the cast of Amateur, the CIA thriller that Rami Malek is leading for 20th Century Studios.
The actors join an ensemble that will also include Rachel Brosnahan, Caitríona Balfe, Laurence Fishburne and Adrian Martinez, as previously announced.
Based on the 2014 Black List script The Defection, which was itself based on the Robert Littell novel The Defection of AJ Lewinter, Amateur tells the story of Charles Heller (Malek), a CIA cryptographer who, after his wife is tragically killed in a London terrorist attack, demands his bosses go after them.
When it becomes clear they won’t act due to conflicting internal priorities, he blackmails the agency into training him and letting him go after them himself.
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