![]() ![]() “As long as I can keep doing that, apart from busy, I’m going to be fine. It’s always intriguing to me.”ĭel Toro said he feels “lucky” to be able to take on both smaller films like “A Perfect Day” and blockbuster titles like the upcoming “Star Wars: Episode VIII,” which he’s signed on to. “I don’t want to turn into a philosopher here, but it’s choices and what makes people make choices, and why they go this way and end up going that other way. “I think it’s part of the human condition,” said del Toro. He also likes stories that feature a moral dilemma, such as the one in Quebec director Denis Villeneuve’s crime thriller “Sicario,” in which del Toro plays a mysterious hired gun. Perfect Day (2016b) explicitly compares its work making a vegan milk substitute to craft brewing: Instead of having cows do all the work, we've developed. “l like characters or stories that deal with the futility of effort,” said del Toro, who was born in Puerto Rico. Their efforts are hampered by jurisdiction issues.įernando Leon de Aranoa directed the film, his first English-language feature, which debuted at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. In theatres Friday, “A Perfect Day” also stars Tim Robbins, Olga Kurylenko, Fedja Stukan and Melanie Thierry as fellow humanitarian NGO workers trying to retrieve a dead body from a well in a mine-filled village. Depends on how many shots of tequila,” the 49-year-old said with a laugh. Joe Pesci in ‘Goodfellas.'”ĭoes del Toro consider himself to be a funny person? “Look at Anthony Hopkins in ‘Silence of the Lambs’ - there’s something there that bubbles out that made me uncomfortable but at the same time made me kind of giggle. ![]() Even when you look at performances of actors that play really, really bad guys, but there’s a sense of humour. “When I watch other actors, I like performances that have a bit of a sense of humour behind it or underneath it. “Even ‘Traffic,’ there were moments with a little bit of humour, or ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,'” del Toro, who played a Bond henchman in “Licence to Kill,” said in a phone interview from Los Angeles. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP, File No matter how menacing the character he's playing, del Toro likes to bring a little humour to it. 14, 2016, file photo, actor Benicio Del Toro poses for photographers upon arrival at the BAFTA 2016 film awards at the Royal Opera House in London. He says it’s a subtle touch he tries to add with all of his parts, which have also included a former convict in “21 Grams” and a police officer in “Traffic.” Both roles earned him an Oscar nomination, with the latter landing him the golden statuette. In his latest film, “A Perfect Day,” del Toro injects a wry wit into his role as a jaded aid worker in an armed conflict zone in the Balkans in 1995. TORONTO – No matter how menacing the character he’s playing, Benicio del Toro likes to bring a little humour to it. This article was published (2411 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. ![]()
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