‘Sorry To Bother You’ Featurette: Meet The Super Talented Cast Of Your New Favorite Social Satire
One of the first things you notice aboutSorry to Bother You,Boots Riley’s new social satire that is sparking conversations about black identity, is how stacked its cast is. And a new featurette highlights the character actor-studded cast.
AtlantabreakoutLaKeith Stanfieldleads a cast filled with everyone’s favorite rising stars, includingTessa Thompson, Armie Hammer, andSteven Yeun. Each of these actors alone would be enough to bring you into the theater, but combined, they’ll make you want to stay.
Sorry to Bother You Featurette
The cast ofSorry to Bother Youhad effusive praise to share about first-time directorBoots Rileyin a/Film interviewpublished earlier this morning, but now in this featurette, they heap tons of praise on each other.
“Keith is great, he brings a sort of subtle power to his character,” Armie Hammer says, kicking things off with a compliment for Stanfield. Stanfield returns the favor by calling Hammer “a very serious actor who is very dedicated to his craft,” in an interview interspersed between scenes of Hammer giving an explosive, against-type performance as an unhinged businessman. The featurette continues highlighting the roles played by Thompson and Yeun, as well as the unexpected turn fromDanny Glover.
“The movie is a wild, crazy, interesting, off-the-wall, dystopian Oakland in the world of telemarketing,” the cast says ofSorry to Bother You, the featurette cutting and pasting their different responses together. It’s as wild and haphazard as the movie looks — and how /Film’s Ben Pearson describes it in hisSundance review of the film. “Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original,Sorry to Bother Youannounces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema,” he writes of Boots Riley. And it works because Riley has a stellar cast to bring his vision to life.
