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04May2009

Ken Watanabe Joins Christopher Nolan's 'Inception'

DateMonday, May 4, 2009 at 9:46PM
Most American audiences first saw Ken Watanabe in The Last Samurai, a movie he gracefully stole from an overbearing Tom Cruise. Turns out, Watanabe is one of the most graceful actors working today, and there's a hell of a lot to be said for that.

He's been great in everything I've seen him in, including Batman Begins, in which he played the villainous Ra's Al Ghul. So in a way, it's not a bolt out of the blue to see him working with Christopher Nolan again. Nolan has relied on plenty of actors more than once, notably his Bruce Wayne and Alfred.

The Hollywood Reporter says Watanabe will don the bad guy hat for Nolan again in his upcoming sci-fi flick, Inception. He'll play a blackmailer targeting Leonardo DiCaprio, who is some kind of CEO type in the movie. Tom Hardy, fresh off the festival success of Bronson, has also joined the cast.

Inception is still something of a mystery; I can't quite get a handle on what taking place in the "architecture of the mind" really means. In due time, I hope.

That cast, however, is a certainty: DiCaprio, Watanabe, Cillian Murphy, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Hardy, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Nolan's next is due out on Dark Knight weekend - July 16, 2010.

AuthorColin Boyd | | in , , , , | Print ArticlePrint Article | | Comment2 Comments |

Reader Comments (2)

I dont know how they are going to fit this "All star cast" into one film together.

I mean what will happen with their face time and roles will be probably small except obviously for the leads for everybody to fit decently well and have some sort of fluidity to the picture

Iam UBER excited dont get me wrong but I have this monkey on my back saying maybe the thing with Wolverine having too many characters in the film making it too condensed and ultimately not a great film will happen here too, but only with big name actor/actresses......

Im not sure,
Colin &/or anybody have any thoughts??????

Monday, May 4, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterSEAN

Well, having a big cast is fine so long as each character exists in the script to advance a hero or a villain. Where it gets muddled is when the characters all have their own agendas, pulling the story in too many directions. Nolan doesn't have the best track record where that's concerned, in my opinion, but we'll see.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 | Registered CommenterColin Boyd

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