A brilliant director is only as good as the cast of players he works with. This has always been true with the works of Bong Joon Ho. From The Host to Parasite, Bong has the incredible ability to bring out the best performances imaginable from stellar ensembles. His latest film, the stunning sci-fi satire, Mickey 17, once more features a cadre of the best actors working today, and it is our honor to say we were able to chat with three of the film’s biggest stars: Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, and Toni Collette.
We enjoyed Mickey 17! It’s a delightfully wacky, but politically poignant takedown of colonization and scapegoating, which is something that couldn’t be more pertinent to our world today. The characters Bong has created for the film are incredibly unique as well, with Yeun portraying the weaselly Timo, Ackie playing Mickey’s best friend Nasha, and Collette in an insane performance as the wife of Mark Ruffalo’s evil dictator Kenneth Marshall.
We had a chance to chat about what it was like for the trio to work with Bong, including Yeun, returning for a second time after Okja, and how they felt about the messages from the film. Check out what they had to say here:
Mickey 17 hits theaters everywhere March 7th!
