"It was fun. We keep saying the word 'intense,' but it was fun too," says Tom Burke of the dinner party scenes. "It has to be. When it's that intense, you have to have a bit of pressure release in between takes."
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"That was fun," Burke laughs. "I mean, that was a whole lot of people doing a lot of hard work and me doing nothing at all."
"The heart of this movie is in those dinner party scenes, and it's very much the first thing that jumps out of the script," he says. "Yes, the script is great. Yes, Steven Soderbergh is directing. But then this cast with those scenes, which almost feels like doing Chekhov with your fellow cast mates. You're throwing it across the table. Something super interesting and unexpected is coming back. You relish coming into work every day."
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In between the stabbed hands, gunshots and Chekhov-esque confrontations, George and Kathryn, both spies, are sorting through their own relationship. On the surface the two appear to have complete faith in one another, but could Kathryn be double crossing him?
"If you speak to them or listen to interviews that they've given after they've left the service, they find it very hard to maintain a relationship," Blanchett continues, referencing work she did to build her character. "[Kathryn and George] have just decided that this can only work if we have deep trust. So that was a really interesting thing to play. I mean we all hope we'd have that with our life partner, but it doesn't always happen that way."
"Obviously I knew him as an actor, and I am a huge admirer of his work, knowing how much it costs," says Blanchett of Fassbbender. "We had a small role, or a walk-by role, in a Terrence Malick film. I don't even know that the scene ended up in the movie. We'd met before, but we'd never really done anything this complex."
"I am always bowled over by the scenic artists who work on studio films," Blanchett says. "We constructed the house because most of the film, apart from one or two breakouts, is in these really contained spaces. The house is obviously Kathryn and George's home, so it was a huge character in the film."
If you'd like to see the real house, Harris says it's located near Canonbury Square in the London borough of Islington ("where my very first house was when I got married," adds Blanchett).
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Another fun fact about the dinner party scenes is that, according to Fassbender, his wife, Oscar winner Alicia Vikander "did a little playlist that Steven used in the film, so she has a guest credit. DJ Vikarious. That's Alicia."
"You can tell who the most committed actor at the table is because it'll be the person eating the food," he says.
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