Caught Stealing is a slick crime thriller from beloved director Darren Aronofosky. After his final function movie, The Whale, tailored a play and received Brendan Fraser his first Academy Award, Aronofsky has introduced the pages of Charlie Huston’s novel of the identical title to life. The story follows Hank Thompson, a former baseball participant yanked into the legal underworld.
ScreenRant’s Caught Stealing evaluation lauded Austin Butler’s main efficiency as Thompson, but in addition extremely praised the film’s “extremely robust” supporting forged. The latter options Matt Smith (Home of the Dragon) and Regina King (Watchmen) as Thompson’s punk neighbor Russ and Detective Roman, respectively.
ScreenRant’s Liam Crowley interviewed Matt Smith and Regina King about their work in Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing, which debuted to a positive Rotten Tomatoes score. The pair mentioned their collaboration with Aronofsky, inhabiting the minds of New Yorkers for the movie, and the way their characters match into the story. Caught Stealing is in theaters now.
Even Caught Stealing’s Stars Fanned Out Over Darren Aronofsky
Darren Aronofsky is a director that actors wish to work with. Brendan Fraser, Natalie Portman, Jennifer Lawrence, and lots of extra respected stars have taken the chance to look within the filmmaker’s work. Regina King spoke for herself and Matt Smith when she stated “we’re such huge followers of his work.”
“He’s on the hand of individuals you wish to work with,” Smith added, with King agreeing. “Positively on the highest 5 hand of administrators you wish to work with,” she stated.
And Aronofsky lived as much as the hype. “When you do have the job,” King stated, “you’re simply hoping that he’s going to be as nice as his expertise and as an individual. And he’s an amazing particular person, however he’s very clear in regards to the imaginative and prescient [and] very clear in articulating the imaginative and prescient to you.”
King additionally shared one thing distinctive in regards to the technique of working with Aronofsky: “I’ve had administrators that wish to be actually near the actors, however Darren, actually… in the event you’re capturing a scene within the automotive, he’s within the automotive with you when you’re capturing.”
“[He’s] like your first viewers, in a manner,” Smith added. “He’s working on fairly a intelligent degree, actually. Additionally, I’ve by no means labored with a director who’s actually so concerned in each division. He’s received an actual type of possession over each aspect of the method.”
How King & Smith Grew to become New Yorkers For Caught Stealing
In getting ready for her position as a detective, Regina King hung out with former NYPD detective Jackie Brown. It was a worthwhile expertise, she revealed: “If anybody will get the chance to fulfill Jackie Brown and let her let you know a narrative, simply listening to her discuss is so partaking.”
“You lean in, and I really feel like that with quite a lot of New Yorkers.”
“The vitality in the best way New Yorkers Communicate and the dialect, the best way they hit phrases…” King mused, “These of us from LA get teased for the best way we are saying some issues as a result of we’re thought-about to be talking correctly … my man all the time pokes enjoyable at me: ‘You say “water” so correctly.’”
Whereas King was working towards her Huge Apple angle, Smith was on the brink of kick off the entire story. Discussing his character Russ, the actor stated “he’s the catalyst for occasions in story phrases. All of it begins with him simply asking his mate to take care of his cat. It’s fairly an inane factor, actually.”
And although Russ is “not within the movie massively,” Smith stated, “after I learn it, I assumed, ‘Oh, it’s cool. That is going to be nice, as a result of truly, he’s integral to the telling of the story.’”
And Russ was removed from a boring character for Smith to tackle. “He simply looks as if a little bit of a f***ing mad lunatic within the first scene. I feel he’s cross at his neighbor. I like that neighbor, by the best way.”
Caught Stealing involves theaters August 29.
Caught Stealing
7/10
- Launch Date
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August 29, 2025
- Director
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Darren Aronofsky
- Writers
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Charlie Huston
- Producers
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Ari Handel, Jeremy Dawson