‘Asteroid City‘ Star Jeffrey Wright On His Love Of The Theater, Leaving The 007 Universe & Bonding With Wes Anderson: “I Just Dig Him. I Think We All Do”
deadline.comIt’s a testament to Jeffrey Wright’s onscreen presence that he is now the longest-serving Felix Leiter — an often-thankless part that’s perhaps the 007-universe equivalent of a Star Trek redshirt — in the entire James Bond franchise.
But, then, Wright has a charismatic gravitas that has served him well in the years since Basquiat, an experimental portrait of the ill-fated New York graffiti artist, first launched him in 1986.
Emmy-nominated for his stint in HBO’s Westworld, he comes to Cannes with his second Wes Anderson hook-up, Asteroid City, after stealing the show in The French Dispatch as food writer Roebuck Wright. DEADLINE: Wes Anderson’s films are always shrouded in secrecy, but what can you say about Asteroid City? JEFFREY WRIGHT: Well, it’s more Wes Anderson [laughs].
It’s set in a fictional town in the American West of 1955, or at least it was 1955 when last I understood it to be. There’s a gathering around science and innovation centered on a group of young inventors or ‘stargazers,’ as we call them.
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