Margot Robbie, Christian Bale, John David Washington: focus on the stars of the film Amsterdam

The three actors are the headliners of Amsterdam, the detective comedy from the director of Happiness Therapy, in theaters this Tuesday, November 1.

Christian Bale

amsterdam is the third collaboration between Christian Bale and director David O. Russell, after fighterin 2010, and american bluffin 2013. The sign of a deep understanding between the two men, Russell thus ranking in the short list of the directors Bale works with most regularly, alongside Christopher Nolan. But what is the actor looking for?American Psycho at the author ofamerican bluff ? No doubt some fresh air. Of lightness. From one Russell film to another, one is indeed struck by the high degree of fantasy of the performances that Bale delivers. Renowned for his seriousness, his intensity, his extreme commitment to his roles, the actor expresses in these three films another facet of his talent: a pronounced taste for the absurd and comedy. Her appetite for disguise, her ability to transform herself physically, turn frankly into a farce here.

Happiness Therapy, Fighter, The Kings of the Desert… David O. Russell before Amsterdam

In fighterthe comedian was inspired by the life of boxer Dicky Ecklund to compose an unforgettable silhouette of a “larger than life” junkie, able to make us go from laughter to tears in the blink of an eyelash (or a hook of the right). american bluff immortalized him as a charming hustler, with very showy toupees, whose belly emerged boldly from his too-tight eph-legged trousers. In amsterdam, Bale plays a broken face of the First World War, an improvising doctor shock investigator, with a hunched back, regularly misplacing his glass eye, like a kind of burlesque ancestor of Lieutenant Columbo. His joyous, almost childish madness clearly sets the film’s tempo – we’re not surprised to learn thatamsterdam is also the first film that the actor produces, a sign of total commitment to the project.

Margot Robbie

After three films in a row with Jennifer Lawrence (happiness therapy, american bluff and Joy), David O. Russell seems to have found a new muse in the person of Margot Robbie (The Wolf of Wall Street, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood). The director approached the actress after seeing her in Me Tonya, the 2017 film that earned him an Oscar nomination. ” I loved her in this movieentrusts the director to First. Me Tonya reminded me Fighter: there were songs in common on the soundtrack and the director Craig Gillespie admitted that he was a fan of my film! It was a great compliment. Margot and I struck up a conversation about amsterdam which lasted for years. I sent her snippets of the script, she worked on her own, she learned to dance, to speak French, I visited her on the sets of other films she was making, like The Suicide Squad…I don’t think she’s ever been so immersed in a character for so long. She is gorgeous in the film, with her brown hair. To write her character, she and I were inspired by her experience in Belgium a few years ago. She was shooting a movie there and she made two very good friends, with whom she was doing the four hundred blows. Since then, one has become her husband, the other runs her production company with her! It was a kind of triangle Jules and Jimto which the trio ofamsterdam echoes. »

John DavidWashington

John David Washington, the third headliner ofamsterdam, is also a newcomer to the world of David O. Russell. Put into orbit thanks to the success of BlacKkKlansman: I infiltrated the Ku Klux Klanby Spike Lee, in 2018, the son of Denzel Washington, a former American football player, has since specialized in the roles of spies or adventurers both chic and nervous, in films like tenet (Christopher Nolan, 2020) or Beckett (Ferdinando Cito Filomarino, 2021). Malcolm & Mary (Sam Levinson, 2021) offered him a hip directing role, but what filmmakers seem to love most about JDW is a form of timeless elegance, capable of flourishing in all eras, across all latitudes. . For amsterdamhe bowed to the unconventional methods of the director of kings of the desert : long conversations before and in parallel with the writing of the screenplay to collaborate on the development of his character, invitation to come to the editing room to influence the final form of the film… What David O. Russell wanted to reveal about According to the director, John David Washington holds in two words: “ her vulnerability and tenderness “.

find amsterdam this Tuesday, November 1 at the cinema