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Taylor Sheridan fought studio pressure to cast Emily Blunt as Sicario’s female lead, using “strong adjectives” to keep Kate ...
Screenwriter Taylor Sheridan got some heavy producer pushback regarding Emily Blunt's character in the script for Sicario.
Emily Blunt's Kate didn't return for the sequel to Sicario, and based on the first movie's final scene, there could be a ...
When the new thriller Sicario opened in US cinemas last month, it was met with near-unanimous acclaim. Across the border in Mexico, however, it has attracted at least one prominent critic.
Sick as it sounds, “Sicario: Day of the Soldado” is the lucky beneficiary of every belligerent tweet, crying child and political point scored in the chaos of the current Mexico/U.S. border crisis.
This is FRESH AIR. The 2015 action thriller "Sicario," starring Emily Blunt as an FBI agent, delved into the moral ambiguities of the U.S. government's war with the Mexican drug trade. Blunt doesn ...
Nearly ten years after its theatrical debut, Sicario is having a moment in the Netflix Top 10. Normally most movies that could be described, however tangentially, as political thrillers risk a ...
While the first “Sicario” may have not been the most sympathetic portrait of Mexicans, its sequel feels like a piece of state-sanctioned propaganda, writes Monica Castillo. “Sicario ...
In 2015, Denis Villeneuve brought Taylor Sheridan’s script for Sicario to life with Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin and Emily Blunt leading the cast. Talk about a dream team. Then, in 2018 ...