Kevin Hart Talks Bringing Nuggets Of His Real Life To The Screen In 'The Man From Toronto' With Woody Harrelson
essence.comkick off the ESSENCE Festival of Culture, Kevin Hart is teaming up with Woody Harrelson for a new Netflix action-comedy like no other.
Premiering on the streaming platform on June 24, The Man From Toronto finds Hart as Teddy Nilson, a bumbling sales rep who can’t quite break into the fitness industry.
In a worst-case scenario of weekend rental gone wrong, Teddy finds himself thrust into a world of espionage, assassination, and government surveillance, in a case of mistaken identity with the world’s deadliest assassin – known only as The Man from Toronto.With these two veterans of comedy and action, there was naturally bound to be a level of improvisation that makes the script come alive.
As Harrelson tells it, that was Hart’s go-to during filming. “I don’t think I’ve laughed that much on a set in my life,” Harrelson shared. “You have to leave room, of course, if I’m doing a comedy, for me to improv and amplify the material that’s already on-page,” Hart said of going off-script. “It’s never to go outside the box, it’s just to color it in a little more.” Hart said it’s so much easier to get that extra improvised material with a veteran like Harrelson, who also knows how to go with the flow and pick up what’s placed in front of him in a scene.
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