{"id":29105,"date":"2025-03-27T23:23:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T03:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=29105"},"modified":"2025-03-27T23:23:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T03:23:55","slug":"the-actor-exclusive-interview-with-director-duke-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=29105","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Actor&#8217; : Exclusive Interview with Director Duke Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a9Courtesy of NEON<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@cinemadailyus\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check out more of our Youtube Channel.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Adriano Ercolani<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> : Italian Film Critic and TV Author living in New York since 2011. Critics Choice Association member. Graduated in History of Cinema in Rome, he works as a freelance correspondent for some of the most important Italian outlets like Hollywood Reporter Italy, Comingsoon.it, Cinefilos.it and Ciak Magazine. He started working as a film critic almost thirty years ago: in his career he attended the most important Film Festivals (Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Toronto, New York Film Festival, Tribeca) and conventions (San Diego Comic-Con, New York Comic-Con, Disney D23). All over the years he has interviewed some of the most important contemporary authors like Michael Mann, Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, Peter Jackson, Alexander Payne, Joel and Ethan Coen, Kathryn Bigelow, Christopher Nolan, Greta Gerwig, Jane Campion). In 2009 he interviewed Christiane Kubrick and Ian Harlan inside Stanley Kubrick\u2019s private office. Other than movies he is fond of American literature and basketball. Los Angeles Lakers fanatic. He lives in New York with his wife and his bossy 3-year -old daughter.<\/span><\/p>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29226 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Actor2.png\" alt=\"The Actor \" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Actor2.png 640w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Actor2-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a9Courtesy of NEON<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Plot: <\/b>When New York actor Paul Cole is beaten and left for dead in 1950s Ohio, he loses his memory and finds himself stranded in a mysterious small town where he struggles to get back home and reclaim what he&#8217;s lost.<\/p>\n<p><b>Director<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> : Duke Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Producer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> : Ken Kao, Paul Young<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Screenwriter<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> :\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm12351087\" data-reader-unique-id=\"25\">Stephen Cooney<\/a>, <a href=\"\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2122478\" data-reader-unique-id=\"26\">Duke Johnson<\/a>, based on the novel &#8216;Memory&#8217; by <a href=\"\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0922799\" data-reader-unique-id=\"27\">Donald E. Westlake<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Distributor<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> : NEON<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Production Co<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> : FNT Productions<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Rating<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> : R<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Genre<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> : Crime, Drama<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Original Language<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> : English<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Release Date (Theaters)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> :\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Runtime<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> : 1h 34min<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>If you like the interview, share your thoughts below!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/adrianoercolani73gmail-com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check out more of Adriano\u2019s articles.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Here\u2019s the trailer of:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Q4cf6DqIYl4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Actor - Official Trailer - In Select Theaters March 14\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q4cf6DqIYl4?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9Courtesy of NEON Check out more of our Youtube Channel.\u00a0 Adriano Ercolani : Italian Film Critic and TV Author living in New York since 2011. 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