‘The Actor’ Director Duke Johnson on Embracing the Film’s ‘Theater Troupe Energy’ and Why André Holland Is ‘Such an Intuitive Actor’
variety.comMatt Minton mminton@variety.com Duke Johnson knows he doesn’t have any of the answers. But that doesn’t stop him from asking “the same questions that a lot of people are interested in” through his films.
Universal questions about reality, art and love are posed in the ‘50s-set “The Actor,” which follows Paul (André Holland), an actor who wakes up one day in a small town in Ohio and can’t remember the first thing about who he is.
As he begins investigating and questioning the people in his life, he falls in love with a costume designer, Edna (Gemma Chan), and gets wrapped up in a mind-bending odyssey.
Which of his many identities are truly his? The film marks writer-director Johnson’s first solo directorial project after co-directing the stop-motion film “Anomalisa” with Charlie Kaufman, which was Oscar-nominated in the best animated feature category back in 2016.
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