With Steven Soderbergh’s fantastic new movie, No Sudden Move, now streaming on HBO Max, I recently had the opportunity to speak with Don Cheadle and Benicio del Toro about making the 1950s-set crime thriller. During the interview, Cheadle and del Toro talked about why they loved Ed Solomon’s script, how the film smuggles in historically accurate information, what people would be surprised to learn about the making of a Soderbergh movie, how working on a Soderbergh set is so different than most movies, and more.
No Sudden Move is about a group of small-time criminals who are hired to steal what they think is a simple document in 1954 Detroit. When the plan goes sideways, they’re forced to search for who hired them and for what ultimate purpose and their journey takes them through the race-torn, rapidly changing city. The film also stars Kieran Culkin, Brendan Fraser, Bill Duke, Jon Hamm, Noah Jupe, Amy Seimetz, Frankie Shaw, Julia Fox, Ray Liotta, and David Harbour.
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