Matthew Rhys quips that he ended up in Cocaine Bear via Keri Russell's coattails
with Elizabeth Banks, who we know, and I read the script and I simply said, ‘Who’s playing that? That little fun part, a few seconds in the beginning?’ She goes, ‘I don’t know.’ I said, ‘Ask Banks.’ And then she said, ‘No, it’s been cast,’ and I said ‘Tell Banks I’ll do it.’ And then I was like, ‘Well actually, just“I was in Ireland looking after the kids.
I said, ‘Look, I’m here! I’m around. I’m local,’” the actor joked. His pitch paid off, and Rhys was brought on to portray Thornton’s tragically comic death. “That was a very quick pop for me. It was kind of half a day,” he said of filming. “They set up an old airplane with a big wind machine, and a stunt team, you know, for the pratfall, and that was it. They put on loud a’80s music, and we had
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