Widows

Widows (2018)

Timing: 2:9 (129 min)

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Release date

2018-11-06

Country

United States, United Kingdom

Production

20th Century Fox, TSG Entertainment, Regency Enterprises, New Regency Pictures, Film4 Productions, See-Saw Films, Lammas Park

Genre

Crime, Thriller, Drama

Budget

$42 000 000

Revenue

$75 984 700

Website

http://widowsmovie.com

Director

Steve McQueen

Actors

Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall, Liam Neeson, Brian Tyree Henry, Daniel Kaluuya, Lukas Haas
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Scenario

Producer

Arnon Milchan, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Steve McQueen, Sue Bruce-Smith, Bergen Swanson, Rose Garnett, Daniel Battsek

Operator

Sean Bobbitt

Composer

Hans Zimmer

Artist

Audition

Francine Maisler, Jennifer Rudnicke, Mickie Paskal

Editing

Joe Walker
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• According to director and screenwriter Steve McQueen, Colin Farrell and Robert Duvall (who played Jack and Tom Mulligan, respectively) improvised many of the scenes included in the film.
• After being cast as Linda, Michelle Rodriguez began taking acting lessons, which were the first acting lessons of her career (she debuted on screen in Karin Kusama's sports drama 'Girlfight' in 2000). The acting coach helped her with one of the most emotionally challenging scenes – where her character talks to a man who has just lost his wife and kisses him.
• Voice coach Taner Marshall worked with the actors in the film on a Chicago accent. She offered the director and actors several pronunciation options so they could choose which, in their opinion, best suited a particular character. After that, she worked with the actors individually, refining their individual pronunciation.
• Director Steve McQueen cast Elizabeth Debicki as Alice after learning that she had acted alongside Cate Blanchett and Isabelle Huppert in 'The Handmaiden' in 2014. McQueen asked Debicki to audition, and her performance impressed him so much that he immediately offered her a role in his upcoming film.
• Storyboards were only used for scenes with stunts, and the film itself was shot by cinematographer Sean Bobbitt using a single camera (the entire film except for the van explosion scene). This approach is typically used in documentary filmmaking, but here it was applied so that the cinematographer and camera would react to the actors' actions, rather than the other way around (where actors react to the presence of the camera). For example, the scene in the gym with the character played by Daniel Kaluuya, where the camera makes a full rotation around the actors, was conceived during filming.
• Director Steve McQueen cast Elizabeth Debicki as Alice after learning she had acted alongside Cate Blanchett and Isabelle Huppert in "The Maids" in 2014. McQueen asked Debicki to audition, and her performance impressed him so much that he immediately offered her a role in his upcoming film.