Actor Joel Kinnaman has offered a lot in 2020, recently co-starring in The Secrets We Keep and in Apple TV's, For All Mankind. His latest is playing the lead in The Informer. Kinnaman headlines the new crime thriller alongside Rosamund Pike, Common, and Clive Owens.
Five Things You Need to Know:
- The Informer stars Joel Kinnaman, playing a reformed ex-convict who makes a deal with the FBI to infiltrate the mob at a maximum security prison.
- Kinnaman is Swedish and first gained recognition for his roles in the Swedish film, Easy Money. He's is known internationally for his television roles as Detective Stephen Holder in AMC's The Killing, Takeshi Kovacs in the first season of Altered Carbon, and Governor Will Conway in the U.S. version of House of Cards. He has also played Alex Murphy in the 2014 RoboCop remake, and Rick Flag in the film adaptation of Suicide Squad, based on the DC Comics anti-hero team of the same name.
- The film was originally scheduled to be released in August, 2018, which was delayed until February, 2019, and then to March. It was then further delayed multiple times due to financial problems involving Aviron.
- Kinnaman talks about the difficulties getting any movie made no matter the budget, saying, "This was a movie we were all very excited about and it was a challenging thing to make it. In making movies you're never going to feel like you have enough money to make it, because you always have to make compromises. Sometimes the biggest films where you don’t have to compromise, $250 million movies, many times that could be a problem, because the constraint of the budget makes you creative, forcing you to be creative."
- Kinnaman's next project will be the big budget sequel to the The Suicide Squad, reprising his role of Rick Flag, the heroic military leader of the original and current Suicide Squad.