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Rolling Stone ‘News of the World’ Wants to be a New Classic Western
Tom Hanks, the Henry Fonda of our moment, clears the hurdles in director Paul Greengrass’ movie set in post-Civil War America
By Bruce W. Talamon/Universal Pictures
A solid, staid, Saturday-afternoon kind of western starring Tom Hanks as an equally solid, stand-up guy on a mission: Sounds about right. The more surprising thing about the movie in question,
News of the World, is that it was directed by Paul Greengrass, whose
Bourne movies set the template for a decade-plus of ecstatically hyper-visual thrillers and procedurals. That’s not the Greengrass we get in this movie, whose films played like Energizer Bunnies manifest. This movie, like Hanks and Greengrass’s
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Zengel has past been seen on the TV shows Inga Lindström, Never Too Late for Justice and Spreewaldkrimi, and in the films Dark Blue Girl and System Crasher.
Zengel opened up earlier this month to The Hollywood Reporter about auditioning in an emotional scene for News of The World in the summer of 2019 in London for filmmaker Paul Greengrass.
Zengel, who has been acting since that age of five, said that the Oscar-winner, 64, cried in every scene that I should get emotional onscreen
Premise: Zengel plays Johanna Leonberger to Hanks Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd in the adventure drama