Janus Metz’s glossy spin on the Olen Steinhauer novel is part chamber drama, part old-school espionage actioner, and entirely the kind of thing we don’t get enough of anymore.
Ex-lovers, current spies — seems like a match made in bullet-proof heaven.
Newton previously talked about being “basically rejected by Black Hollywood for not being ‘Black'” enough at the IndieWire Studio out of Sundance.
“You used to be sexy,” Newton tweeted at Penn, “but now you’re just tragic.”
Sundance: Newton’s strong performance anchors this character study that deconstructs political stereotypes before immediately reassembling them.
“I do feel like I’m done by the way, genuinely,” Newton said at the IndieWire Studio, presented by Adobe. “A light has gone out… [‘God’s Country’] defines what I want to be as an actress.”
Newton said that in the original “Solo” script, her character didn’t die, but in fact her death came about during filming.
Newton has been credited as “Thandie” since her first acting credit after the “W” in “Thandiwe” was left out.
