December 18th, 2020 by KRNB
Photo credit: Scott Everett White
Michael Ealy and
Deon Taylor-directed film,
Fatale.
In the new thriller, Ealy plays Derrick Tyler, a sports agent who becomes the target of a troubled police detective, played by Swank. Ealy tells ABC Audio that he and Swank both brought their A-game to the film.
“It just felt more authentic in that way… like we kind of raised the bar a little bit with
Fatale,” he says. “And I was very, very proud to be a part of this.”
Swank agrees, nothing that although she starred in previous thrillers, she’s never done one like this before.
film gris of infidelity, blackmail and murder has the potboiler smudgeprints of
Fatal Attraction all over it. Successful Los Angeles sports agency executive Derrick Tyler (Ealy) slips off his wedding ring during a bachelor party weekend in Las Vegas, temporarily rechristens himself “Darrin”, and hooks up with a sexually-forward Valerie (Swank) after she insists he mop up the cocktail he accidentally spills down her cleavage. Once back at his Hollywood Hills home and in the arms of his wife Tracie (Lewis), their shaky marriage momentarily rekindled, Derrick is viciously attacked downstairs one night by a masked gunman. When the LAPD police officer assigned to the case arrives to investigate, it turns out what happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay there. As a slightly tense Detective Quinlan (yes, Swank) surveys the couple’s upstairs bedroom for an altogether different set of clues, her eyes lock on Tracie’s lacy underwear casually strewn on the marital bed and instantly you
Actor Michael Ealy has some advice for his character, Derrick Tyler, from his latest film, âFataleâ: âWhen cheating on your spouse perhaps you should do some sort of Google search or deep dive.â
Ealy plays Derrick, a successful married man who finds himself entangled in an investigation by a cunning police detective (played by Oscar winner Hilary Swank) after a one-night stand.
That advice would have saved his character a lot of time and trouble but would have made for a boring movie and made the role less challenging for Ealy.
âIt was an interesting thing to play somebody who made such a colossal mistake,â he said.