Kaley Cuoco’s ‘Scrapped Ending’ Director David Oyelowo – The Hollywood Reporter
Kaley Cuoco and David Oyelowo in the movie “Role Play”
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(This story contains spoilers for the Prime Video movie role play.)
The team behind the action-comedy film Prime Video role play He initially intended to make things more challenging for Kaley Cuoco and David Oyelowo’s main characters before turning on the lights.
says Thomas Vincent, who directed the recent Amazon MGM Studios film from a script by Seth Owen Hollywood Reporter That there was a final moment planned at the end where Emma (Coco) gets a little scared when her husband Dave (Oyelowo) realizes that her high-risk lifestyle as a professional assassin may not actually be in the past.
“At some point, there was an epilogue in Mexico, and they were in their next life and in a restaurant,” Vincent recalls. “A group of big guys came in, like mafia guys. Then, as soon as the boss sat down at the table, he had a heart attack and died. The two of them were having a drink at the bar, and David was turning to her and saying, ‘Huh?’ You said you stopped!”
Thomas Vincent, Kaley Cuoco and David Oyelowo are attending the party role play the first show.
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According to Vincent, the potential outcome was never filmed, as the filmmakers decided to give the couple’s story more closure. The ending chosen by Vincent shows the couple and their children moving on after Oyelowo spared his wife after she shot him in the stomach to mislead her colleagues. “At some point, we made a decision to be simpler, to stick to the story,” he explains. “This will likely be the beginning of the sequel.”
Vincent credits the relationship between Cuoco and Oyelowo for helping push the feature. role play It tells the story of a couple who decide to spice things up with a little role-playing during a night out at a bar, which leads to Oyelowo’s character finally learning the truth about his wife’s double life after a man they met over drinks turns on him. dead.
“We knew we wanted to strike that balance between comedy and action and make a really beautiful movie — and a movie based on these two characters and these two actors — because their chemistry was so great.” The manager continues. “That was gold, and that’s really what we wanted to base the movie on.”
role play It is currently streaming on Prime Video.
