kick off the ESSENCE Festival of Culture, Kevin Hart is teaming up with Woody Harrelson for a new Netflix action-comedy like no other.
Premiering on the streaming platform on June 24, The Man From Toronto finds Hart as Teddy Nilson, a bumbling sales rep who can’t quite break into the fitness industry.
In a worst-case scenario of weekend rental gone wrong, Teddy finds himself thrust into a world of espionage, assassination, and government surveillance, in a case of mistaken identity with the world’s deadliest assassin – known only as The Man from Toronto.With these two veterans of comedy and action, there was naturally bound to be a level of improvisation that makes the script come alive.
As Harrelson tells it, that was Hart’s go-to during filming. “I don’t think I’ve laughed that much on a set in my life,” Harrelson shared. “You have to leave room, of course, if I’m doing a comedy, for me to improv and amplify the material that’s already on-page,” Hart said of going off-script. “It’s never to go outside the box, it’s just to color it in a little more.” Hart said it’s so much easier to get that extra improvised material with a veteran like Harrelson, who also knows how to go with the flow and pick up what’s placed in front of him in a scene.
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