Coup!
Summary
Billy Magnussen and Peter Sarsgaard find themselves on react sides of a brewing war between division inCoup ! . Magnussen has bask a steady rise to stardom over the past few years , starring in everything from Disney ’s live - actionAladdinremake , with a spinoff focused on his character Prince Anders in the works , as well asThe SopranosprequelThe Many Saints of Newark , Daniel Craig ’s last James Bond outingNo Time to Dieand the Jake Gyllenhaal - ledRoad Houseremake . Sarsgaard is a Golden Globe - nominated star known for everything fromOrphantoThe Magnificent Seven , The Batman , DopesickandPresumed Innocent .
InCoup ! , Magnussen star as Jay " J.C. " Horton , a rich mudslinger diarist who , with his family line , travels to their isolated seaside the three estates during the 1918 influenza epidemic to avoid getting sick . When mysterious grifter , Floyd Monk ( Sarsgaard ) , arrives claiming to be their new private cook , thing begin learn a baleful twist as the plague arrive on the island and the Captain James Cook begins nark up the other employees to claim more exponent for themselves .
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Alongside Magnussen and Sarsgaard , the ensembleCoup!cast includesTrue Detectivealum Sarah Gadon , Skye P. Marshall , The Old Man ’s Faran Tahir , Kristine Nielsen , Fisher Stevens , Callum Vinson and Willa Dunn . atomic number 27 - write and co - directed by originative duo Austin Stark and Joseph Schuman , the movie is a well timed and satiric approaching to the class war tale in the same vein asthe 2022 hitThe Menu , proving to be simultaneously hysteric and tense .
In honor of the movie ’s release , Screen Rantinterviewed Billy Magnussen and Peter Sarsgaard to discussCoup ! , the joy of collaborate with Stark and Schuman , tapping into the timely themes of the film ’s story , and the emasculation dynamic of their fictitious character .
Stark & Schuman Are Both “Real Playful” & “Intellectual”
In muse on what sparked their interest in starring in the film , both Magnussen and Sarsgaard pointed towardsCoup ! ’s alone tonal intermixture of clowning and suspense , with the latter , in picky , recalling his initial thought being " What genre does this belong to ? " . The duo also go on to praise working with Stark and Schuman , who have been friends since kindergarten and found a unique way to blend their " intellectual aspects " with a " playful , silly expression " :
Peter Sarsgaard : For me , it was really the look of the thing . I scan it , and I was like , " What music genre does this belong to ? " And I really dig things when they ’re like that , when somebody ’s trying something unlike . And I wish the way that the two of them solve together , they went to high school day together .
Billy Magnussen : Kindergarten !
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Peter Sarsgaard : Kindergarten ! Jesus , that ’s right , they ’ve lie with each other their total lives . And they ’re not at all the same individual . There ’s real noetic vista , and a very playful , dizzy face to both of them . I was just concerned in the world , and then I also really , really comprehend the idea that it ’s not an attack , but it ’s a criticism of this melodic theme of something that I ’m a part of .
I ’m Billy ’s character in real life . I ’m the wealthy , liberal guy who , I pontificate about all the direful thing that are pass off in the human race from afar , and I ’m not really imply enough in the actual mysterious troubles of the world to point out on them in a way of life that is inform . And I get my info from other people , like Billy ’s character . It ’s a somewhat obvious matter in the movie , but I thought that was something worth exploring .
Billy Magnussen : I think , for me , there ’s so many stratum and depths in it . One is , to stick out off what Peter was saying , the lip service of what people say and what they do . induce a caustic remark set in 1918 during the Spanish Influenza , like , we have Instagram today , these social media outlets , journalists now , again , say , like , " Look at actually what ’s materialize , what I ’m doing . " And then , you pull the tv camera off , and you ’re like , " You ’re in reality doing nothing , you ’re not actually helping . " throw that prototype up on CRT screen , I think , is kind of sinewy in a weird way , and exploring that hypocrisy of character like that .
A cunning cook infiltrates an isolated seaside estate during the Spanish Flu pandemic, rallying the household staff to rebel against their wealthy employers. As the lines between servant and master blur, the film explores themes of class struggle, power dynamics, and the darkly comic consequences of an uprising.
And then also , just these social jurist warriors — well , there ’s more form of layered into the social justice warrior prospect , being like , " Hey , follow me . We ’re all equal . Oh , wait , as long as we ’re follow my convention , we ’re all equal , then that ’s nerveless . " And then , I thought also , " What is the price and degree of de - masculine dating someone , another man , and taking someone ’s kingdom ? " That always excited me , that Monk slowly steal and thin out and chipped away at this human ’s living , and see all the holes and all the flaw in it , who in reality is a more worldly - screw character . Just being capable to displume a man aside from the inside , that is play . That ’s tensity to me . Like , if someone did that to me , I ’d be like , " Oh , I ’m done . "
Peter Sarsgaard : Emasculation always provides for safe dramatic event . [ Laughs ]
Billy Magnussen : It ’s so funny , and we do n’t explore it , I remember , as much as we think we do . It ’s unremarkably a engagement , and there ’s not really fighting in this movie , except just slowly stealing .
Peter Sarsgaard : No , there ’s a fight , it just lasts about 30 seconds . [ Laughs ]
Billy Magnussen : My role is a bit of a d – k. [ Laughs ]
Peter Sarsgaard : I wound you up . That ’s what happens when you find a cat up and emasculate him .
The Duo Frequently Discussed How To “Ramp Up” Scenes (Even With The Short Shooting Schedule)
With its indie - grade output , Magnussen and Sarsgaard witness themselves order the movie together in " 20–23 days " , requiring a quick process of set the various layer of their characters ' dynamic as a socialite emasculated by a appendage of his faculty . The dyad found themselves captivated by the opportunity to catch this dynamic in such a nimble mode , with much of it being found in a " spontaneous " style :
Billy Magnussen : A man of art is always malleable and transform and growing . Austin and Joey wrote a beautiful hand , but then , when you ’re shoot it , what was smashing is it ’s such a small film . We ’re all producers on it , make this together , and we ’re get wind , like , " How do we storm up this mo ? How do we make it more palpable ? How do we feel each other ? " , like Peter was saying before . It ’s also sometimes unspoken how you act with such a veteran , fabled actor as Peter . How do you make these moments and get it catch on television camera ? It ’s a teaser piece . Peter , help me out here . [ Chuckles ]
Peter Sarsgaard : Veteran and legendary make me finger old . But that ’s okay , I ’m not old .
Billy Magnussen : I ’m not saying you ’re honest-to-goodness , I ’m just enounce you ’ve got more time in time kickin ' a– than I do .
Peter Sarsgaard : Yeah , I think of there ’s this famous great quote from Stanislavski when he first come to America , he was going to direct a show on Broadway , and they said , " Great , what do you need ? " And he was like , " Alright , well , I ’m gon na call for six months of rehearsal . " And they ’re like , " Oh , no , no , you do n’t get six month of dry run . " And then he was like , " Oh , okay , then , like 10 days . " Because the truth is , either you desire all the meter in the earth , like you do on these big film sometimes , to really be able to work something out , or , the thing that we embraced , is we had , like , 20–23 days .
Embrace getting flash out of a cannon . It ’ll be spontaneous . You ’ll never be doing the same shot for four days , you ’ll be doing the same scene for about an hour , and you just go and the " mistakes " become part of the moving-picture show , the happy fortuity become part of the movie . It ’s not even like we ’re intentionally putting them in there all the time . We knew to just jump on this boat the fashion it was go . You ’re not like , " I ’m dismal , I ’m gon na call for to keep exercise on this scene to explore other affair past lunch . " No , you have to get this matter done . [ Laughs ]
AboutCoup!
Isolated on a seaboard estate during the 1918 Spanish Flu , an entitled journalist ( Billy Magnussen ) and his socialite wife ( Sarah Gadon ) take in a mystic grifter as a secret cook ( Peter Sarsgaard ) . When the infestation descends on the island , the tricky cook wake his fellow staff to rebel and take over the sign of the zodiac . Their wealthy employer suspects the Captain Cook ’s coup is part of a more dark agenda , and nous games between master and retainer escalate into boisterous class warfare .
Coup!is now in theater of operations .
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A wily cook penetrate an stray seaboard land during the Spanish Flu pandemic , razz the household staff to renegade against their moneyed employers . As the lines between servant and master blur , the film explores composition of class struggle , power dynamic , and the darkly comic aftermath of an insurrection .
