Mark Rylance on New Film ‘The Outfit’ and Never Having Watched a Marvel Movie
variety.comK.J. Yossman Fresh from appearing in Netflix hit Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up,” Mark Rylance’s latest big screen outing is “The Outfit,” in which he stars as Leonard, a 1950s tailor.
It is a role that could not be more dissimilar to the fictional megalomaniac billionaire Peter Isherwell, whom Rylance plays in McKay’s disaster movie.Written and directed by Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning scribe behind “The Imitation Game,” “The Outfit” sees Rylance star as a Savile Row tailor who has fled across the Atlantic to escape his tragic past.
Before long, however, Leonard finds himself surrounded by Chicago mobsters embroiled in a brutal turf war that spills into the sanctuary of his tailor shop.
Zoey Deutsch and Dylan O’Brien also star in the feature, which, although set entirely in Leonard’s Chicago-based shop, was shot over 24 days in the U.K.
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