On Joe and Anthony Russo’s Cherry, cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel honed in on the larger-than-life emotions of a singular character, who found himself going through one life-altering experience after another.Based on a novel by Nico Walker, the Apple TV+ drama centers on Cherry (Tom Holland), a college student seeking purpose in his life, who enlists as a medic in the Iraq War.
Upon returning home, he’s crippled by PTSD. Then developing a drug addiction, he falls into debt and turns to bank robbery to make ends meet.When Sigel boarded the film, he knew it called for a stylized aesthetic.
Like Cherry himself, his camerawork needed a distinctive voice.The key technique, in bringing this to the film, emerged from the script, which was
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