Caleb Landry Jones attends a photocall for the movie “Dogman” at the 80th Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2023 in Venice, Italy.Photo:Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty
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Caleb Landry Jones is committed to his craft.
As Jones, 33, participated in aVenice Film Festivalpress conferenceThursday for his new filmDogManalongside filmmakerLuc Bessonand others, the Texas-born actor answered questions with a Scottish accent.
Before the conference got underway, Besson, 64, explained the reason for Jones' accent to reporters.
“Just for you to know — he’s working on a character in Scotland, so it’s not his normal voice," the filmmaker said. “But he needs to stay in character, so if you don’t understand so much the accent — it’s a brilliant accent.”
“It’ll be better in the film,” theThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouristar quipped in his Scottish accent.
Neither Jones nor Besson clarified what project Jones is developing his accent for. Jones currently stars alongside Jojo T. Gibbs, Christopher Denham, Clemens Schick, Grace Palma in Besson’sDogMan, which made its world premiere at the festival this week.
Jones and his castmates are at the Venice Film Festival thanks to an interim agreement between the production and SAG-AFTRA, according toDeadline. While the Screen Actors Guild has beenstriking major Hollywood productions since July 13, a number of independent movies have received the go-ahead to continue filming or allow actors to do promotional work at this fall’s film festivals.
US actress Jojo T. Gibbs (left), French director and producer Luc Besson (center) and US actor Caleb Landry Jones (right) pose during the photocall of the movie “Dogman” presented in competion at the 80th Venice Film Festivalon August 31, 2023 at Venice Lido.GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP via Getty
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Deadline previously reported that the film received an interim agreement from SAG-AFTRA because it was independently financed and does not yet have a major distributor backing the movie.
Other films premiering at the Venice Film Festival this week with actors in attendance due to interim agreements with SAG-SFTA include Michael Mann’sFerrari, starringAdam Driver;The Promised Land, starring Mads Mikkelsee; andPriscilla, starringCailee SpaenyandJacob Elordi, as the outletreportedlast week.
Caleb Landry Jones (left) and Jonica T. Gibbs (right) attend a photocall for the movie “Dogman” at the 80th Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2023 in Venice, Italy.Daniele Venturelli/WireImage
Daniele Venturelli/WireImage
Jones did not appear in any films in 2022 after starring in three 2021 releases:Finch,The ForgivenandNitram. The actor made his film debut in 2007 with the Academy Award-winning filmNo Country for Old Menand has appeared in movies likeX-Men: First ClassandThe Florida Project.
Besson’s new movie is his first directorial effort since 2019’sAnna. In June, filmmaker was cleared of rape charges in France after actress Sand Van Roy accused him of assault in 2018.
DogManwill release in theaters in France on Sept. 27.
source: people.com
