Tom Holland Battles PTSD and Addiction in Trailer for The Russo Bros. Film CHERRY
AppleTV+ has released the first full trailer for Joe and Anthony Russo‘s upcoming film project Cherry. The movie is based on a 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.”
Director Joe Russo talked about the film, saying, “He travels a great distance over a 15-year period. The movie’s broken up into six chapters that reflect those different periods, and each one has a different tone. It’s shot with different lenses, different production design. One’s got magical realism. Another chapter is absurdism. Another is horror…There’s a bit of gonzo in it. It’s raw in its tone. He’s a character in existential crisis.”
Apple will release the film in theaters on February 26th, 2021, and it will debut on Apple TV+ two weeks later. Watch the trailer and tell us what you think.