How Joel Edgertonâs cruellest role turned into a blessing
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How Joel Edgertonâs cruellest role turned into a blessing
The 46-year-old actor was driven to play a ruthless slave catcher in the yearâs most anticipated TV series. It may be his defining moment.
May 12, 2021
Joel Edgerton asked to be considered for the role of slave catcher Arnold Ridgeway in The Underground Railroad.
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Joel Edgerton knows how to find his way. Put the Australian actor behind the wheel of a car in a city for a few weeks and he gets âa blueprintâ of the streets in his head. Place him at the start of his career as a young Sydney drama school graduate and 25 years later Edgertonâs a leading Hollywood star and an accomplished writer and director. Whatever their form, the paths he forges are unique.
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Chinese restaurant Yunnans at Jewel Changi Airport. It has two other outlets at Westgate in Jurong, and Nex at Serangoon. (Photo: Yunnans)
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SINGAPORE: The month of May, with a few public holidays, is usually the most profitable period of the year for eateries such as Chinese restaurant chain Yunnans.
“There’s Labour Day, Mother s Day, Vesak Day – and also a lot of long weekends”, said Yunnans chief operating officer Reuben Chua.
Jason Matthews, CIA officer who after a career in the field wrote realistic spy novels including Red Sparrow – obituary
Though there was a tradition of British spies turning thriller writers, Matthews was a rare instance of an American who made the transition
3 May 2021 • 6:28pm
Matthews: he pointed out that ‘We’re not choirboys’ and had few regrets about the untruths he had told in American interests
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Jason Matthews, who has died in California aged 69, wrote the best-selling thriller Red Sparrow (2013) and its sequels, which drew on the author’s previous career of three decades with the CIA.
Jason Matthews, C.I.A. Officer Turned Novelist, Dies at 69
After 33 years at the agency, he turned out three well-received novels that included realistic details of espionage and appearances by Vladimir Putin.
The novelist and former intelligence operative Jason Matthews in Bryant Park in Manhattan in 2015. His fiction, he said, was “an amalgam of people I’ve known, of things I’ve done, of stuff I’ve lived.”Credit.Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times
May 2, 2021, 11:29 a.m. ET
Jason Matthews, who after 33 years as a C.I.A. officer in Istanbul, Athens, Belgrade, Rome, Budapest and Hong Kong became a best-selling author of three spy thrillers, died on Wednesday at his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif. He was 69.
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