Bringing a heavyweight Latino cast—including Edgar Ramírez, Penélope Cruz, and Gael García Bernal—with him, Olivier Assayas came to TIFF from Venice with Wasp Network, a slow-burn spy thriller trac…
Bringing a heavyweight Latino cast—including Edgar Ramírez, Penélope Cruz, and Gael García Bernal—with him, Olivier Assayas came to TIFF from Venice with, a slow-burn spy thriller tracing the lives of Cuban nationals who infiltrated the U.S. after the country’s 1990s post–Soviet Union economic collapse. It marks a change of pace for Assayas after last year’s talky, intimate drama—which is how he came to be attached in the first place.
“The material came to me,” Assayas told us at the Deadline studio, “I suppose, because [Edgar and I] didtogether, and when there’s a spy story, usually it comes to me. But I saw that there was potential there for me to do something completely different here, especially because it was set in a part of the world that I’d never really visited. I was fascinated by it, but did not know it so well, so I thought it was a way of exploring something new.
For Ramírez, though the film is set in the recent past, it has lots to tell us about the present day. “What is very interesting about this movie [is] this ongoing tension between Cuba and the United States,” he said. “It’s still going on, and it doesn’t really seem like it’s going to stop anytime soon.
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