I don’t recall much of the Covid years. Do any of us? But I do remember being amped for Bob Odenkirk’s John Wick moment in Nobody. I am, of course, a fan of the Sleeping Assassin subgenre and Nobody was a nice take on it.
It was obviously set up to make a franchise going forward, but, you know, Covid. I don’t think it did any numbers at the box office because nothing did anything at the box office back then.
But maybe it was a streaming hit because I just read that there is a Nobody 2 dropping next year, and Sharon Stone is the villain. Weird. I was just wondering about what happened to her the other day. No mystery, of course. She’s a woman in Hollywood. She aged out of the business. So it’ll be cool to see her back. She does play the villain well. Her turn on a dime in Total Recall was great.
From Empire:
Where Odenkirk’s Hutch faced off against a vengeful Russian crime lord in the first film, the sequel will see him pitted against Sharon Stone’s unpredictable villain. According to Tjahjanto, she’s a force of nature. “Her performance reminds me a lot of Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast,” he says of that film’s relentless, potty-mouthed psychopath Don Logan. “She is definitely an alpha female. She doesn’t take shit from anybody. This is a villain that is unique, and she’s making this character completely batshit crazy.”
In Sharon Stone news.
The standup comedian, podcaster and actor, Marc Maron, is current filming his first movie as the lead actor. Obviously, he is semi-terrified of the challenge and responsibility.
The movie is called ‘In Memoriam’.
Maron plays an actor with great ambition who never really had the ability to make the big time. Later in his career, he was in a reasonably successful TV sitcom. That is all anybody remembers him for. He finds out he is terminally ill and becomes obsessed with trying to be featured in the “In Memoriam" segment at the Oscars.
It’s a kind of sad comedy.
Anyway, he has a scene where he has to break down and sob. Maron is convinced he can’t do this. Never in his life has he been able to voluntarily cry. He is in a panic.
He tells this to his scene partner, Sharon Stone. She reassures him. I’ll be right with you. We’ll get to that place together etc. The scene starts. Maron breaks down and sobs. In fact, he and Stone break down and sob thru multiple retakes.
Even weeks later, Maron feels like a changed person who has had a breakthrough as an actor and a person. All because of the scene partner who coaxed it out of him. Because, he says, Sharon Stone is a great actor.
I haven't seen Nobody, will toss it on the to be watched pile. In the Sleeping Assassin subgenre my personal favourite was 1996 film The Long Kiss Goodnight. Conscious of the fact that any book, film, TV series, music, at a certain point in one's life has to be by definition the best of that genre ever. More as a reflection on you as a person than any inherent quality in that piece of media.