![]() “We’re both Jewish, me and Ronnie, and there was a very strong Jewish diamond identity, which I liked,” says Marshall Greenberg.Įarly in the movie, Celtics power forward Kevin Garnett and his posse visit Howard’s showroom and are immediately entranced by an uncut gem he’s just received from Ethiopia. In honor of Uncut Gems’ Netflix debut - a moment months in the making - Vulture spoke to the best of the movie’s civilians, about how they ended up in an indie film about the chaos and magic of their hometown. Movie stars seem regular, boring even, next to these people who have been in this world before the cameras showed up, and are still there today. ![]() There’s something a little romantic about the way the character - and, by extension, the Safdies themselves - navigates this small universe of diamonds and the people who sell them: Deals are made in tiny, weary offices, soundtracked by the buzz of security doors letting buyers in and out, the clack of precious jewels being placed on glass, the cacophony of fussing over a deal. Over the course of a couple days in 2012, Sandler’s Howard runs around 47th Street making money and losing it. Uncut Gems uses - and subverts - it’s résuméd stars’ appeal, but the movie is built on a handful of first-time actors: Kevin Garnett and Julia Fox, among them. “If you’ve never heard of him, that’s because the Safdies literally found him on the street in New York and cast him, like half of the characters in their movies, which sucks for actors like myself with résumés.” “That’s not Keith Richards, that’s Keith William Richards,” Chalamet said. For some reason, this time I went with it and everything kind of fell into place.”) When Timothée Chalamet presented the Safdies and co-screenwriter Ronald Bronstein with a National Board of Review award in January, he pointed out Richards’ uniqueness. (“I immediately pushed them away each time. But it’s surprisingly his first film Richards says he turned down a handful of other onscreen opportunities before getting cast in Josh and Benny Safdie’s 2019 A24 drama. Wasn’t he the heavy from a dozen B-gangster films from a decade ago? Or maybe he was in the background somewhere in Thief? When he shows up as an antagonist in Uncut Gems, the Safdie brothers’ crime drama from 2019, his presence sets its own expectation: Howard Ratner ( Adam Sandler), the loudmouth Diamond District gambling addict, might not make it out of this one intact. Keith William Richards has a face with a curious familiarity. She started using drugs from a very young age after first smoking crack cocaine with her mother at the age of 12.Uncut Gems uses - and subverts - stars like Adam Sandler, but the movie is built on a handful of first-time actors from the diamond district and beyond. ![]() ![]() In a tragic twist, he was found dead of an overdose in New York's Central Park a month before the film's premiere.Īt the time of filming, Arielle was no longer using heroin but was still on methadone, and asked the Safdie brothers for help to get clean. The real Ilya wasn't cast in the film because his behaviour was too volatile. The scene was based on Arielle's real-life experience with her real-life boyfriend, also called Ilya. It's harrowing from its first scene, in which Harley slashes her wrists in a public park because Ilya won't forgive her for cheating on him.
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