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A sequel to 2015’s critical hit, Sicario: Day of the Soldado has hit the Indian theatres on July 6, 2018. This Stefano Sollima directorial is definitely generating exhilaration on the duo – Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toto kidnapping drug kingpin’s teenage daughter portrayed by Isabela Moner. Actor Josh Brolin gets candid about the film and more in an interview. Excerpts:
From what I understand, Sicario was a trilogy. What are the narrative priorities do you think are there in the second film?
I think in the first one there wasn’t large scope! In this one, I think when Taylor wrote it... he was talking about the trilogy, I was imagining and it was funny because I was talking about it to Benicio the other day about Taylor and I said you know the fact that he is such a skilled writer and all that he said Sicario was his film! His first written film which I didn’t know! So everything I said was obviously wrong that he just has an innate talent like anybody else. But I think he always saw this is a trilogy and I like this take. She takes this two kind of unemotional characters (adds Emilie was the emotional one in the first part) but you put them in a human trafficking situation and you involve them in that. There is a challenge of humanity that wasn’t in the first one and in the second one and when we go with the third one, we have an idea if it happens but it’s just as interesting.
What was it like for you and Benicio to revisit these characters that you had just created in the first film? They are somewhat similar but different as well?
They are not similar, they are different! Its hard almost similar to doing a play on stage and leaving it to years and somebody just says why don’t we do that again, it worked so well! Why don’t we revive it! But then suddenly there’s different dialogue, sort of a different story. So I think we were both nervous about doing this especially since Denis (Villenueve) wasn’t doing the film as he had something else to do and wasn’t much interested in doing it so we met with Stefano (Sollima) and Dariusz Wolski who I have a mass of the man of respect for! But just stepping back it was a bit uncomfortable in the beginning. In the beginning, I felt that maybe we made a mistake, maybe this is not something we should’ve done and I didn’t quite get it. But then you realize, there is always nerves in the beginning and once you kind off get your stride in a couple of weeks goes by you are like oh! I think I do remember this.
As you said, both your characters in the first film were very sort of dark… how does this reduction of the girl humanize both of you and affect the relationship that you have with Benicio?
Oh I love even though she is a girl, daughter of the cartel which again reasons presentational where you think she’s hard, she has been raised by this drug guy and all those kind of stuffs but then no matter how tough she comes across, she is fighting in her school and the truth of the matter is that she is a kid! So whatever is the presenter is not necessarily always the case! This movie with a mat with all hinder was all presented, the first movie is not necessarily the case. When she sees the case cracks when she starts to get in there and again you are confronted with humanity by the end of the movie. To me, it wasn’t necessary or be it was for Emily wasn’t in the first film.
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