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‘Hit Man’ Director Richard Linklater Laments Hollywood’s “Sexless Characters, Superheroes Without Genitalia”


The director said moviegoers are being fed superheroes without genitalia while sex "is the thing that drives people."

Linklater calls the movie, starring Glen Powell and Adria Arjona, a “sexy crime thriller meets screwball comedy” and says the plot hinges on Arjanoa’s character Maddy being “the one he will risk everything for, just to sleep with her.” Linklater based Hit Man on a true story, chronicled by Skip Hollandsworth in 2001 article in Texas Monthly. Linklater cast Oscar nominee Paul Mescal shortly before BBC romantic drama Normal People turned him into a star.

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