Behind-The-Scenes "Making Of" Look at The Russo Bros. CHERRY
Joe and Anthony Russo’s Cherry was released on Apple TV+ this past weekend. While I thought this was a wonderfully made film, it was super hard for me to watch due to the subject matter. After watching it I was left in a super depressed state, which is never fun. You can read my review for it here.
We’ve got a new featurette for the film to share with you today that offers us a behind-the-scenes “making of’ look at the film. The video explains how the creative minds behind Cherry turned a small-town story into a cinematic odyssey.
The movie is based on the book by Nico Walker, which tells his true life story. Nico was a former Army medic who returned from Iraq with extreme undiagnosed PTSD and fell into opioid addiction and began robbing banks.
Tom Holland takes on the role of Nico in the movie, and it looks like he gives an incredible and powerful performance. This looks like it will be his greatest acting achievement to date.
The character he plays, Nico, is “a young man from an affluent family marries his hometown girlfriend, Emily (Ciara Bravo), before joining the Army and shipping out to Iraq. An Army medic, he is unprepared for the grisly reality that awaits him, and the rough-and-tumble nature of his fellow soldiers who smoke, huff computer duster, take painkillers, watch porn, and get gruesomely injured all too regularly. By the time the soldier returns home, his PTSD rages, he’s soon on drugs and in debt, and he finds an outlet in knocking off banks, a pursuit that forces him to focus and makes him feel the way he did in pressure combat situations. Walker robbed about a dozen banks and stole close to $40,000 over four months, before finally getting caught in 2011.”
The movie is described as an “epic odyssey of romance, war, drug addiction, and crime, a young man struggles to find his place in the world.”
You can check out the featurette below and if you’ve already seen the film, let us know what you thought of it.