Not exact matches
Credit is due for key
members of the
cast — from
veteran actor Kim Yoon Seok to rookie actor Park Yu Chun
of boyband JYJ fame — for carrying the provocative and controversial story well.
Veteran actor Robert Forster has reportedly replaced an original
cast member in Showtime's revival
of «Twin Peaks.»
Other key
cast members include two
veteran Irish actresses
of stage and screen, Olwen Fouere and Cathy Belton, as well as hot newcomer Sam Keeley who after being selected at an open
casting for The Other Side
of Sleep, has gone on to star in RTE series RAW as well as Lenny Abrahamson's forthcoming film What Richard Did.
Stewed from bits
of Agatha Christie, David Mamet, and Sam Peckinpah, The Hateful Eight traps a
cast of blowhards (including Samuel L. Jackson as a Civil War
veteran, Kurt Russell as a bounty hunter known as «The Hangman,» and Jennifer Jason Leigh as a psychopathic gang
member) in a blizzard - enveloped supply station.
,» the Coens assembled a
cast that mixes
veteran members of the brothers repertoire like George Clooney («O Brother Where Art Thou,» «Intolerable Cruelty» «Burn After Reading») and Josh Brolin («No Country For Old Men») with newcomers including Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill and Alden Ehrenreich.
Kesy also has the benefit
of bulking up his film resume in the interim with a role in the war drama Horse Soldiers (set for a January 2018 release), and the fact that three
of his fellow
cast members are superhero movie
veterans (Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon and Michael Pena) certainly won't hurt.
Many
of the
cast members are
veterans of earlier Leigh films, including the pear - shaped, pouty - lipped Timothy Spall, whose character blinks back tears as his big song seems doomed in dress rehearsal.