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Rami Malek on Producing ‘The Amateur,’ Heath Ledger’s Joker Influence and a ‘Mr. Robot’ Film

A scene in his spy thriller features a subtle nod to 'The Dark Knight,' when the Joker flinches after an explosion: "If someone like The Joker is going to flinch, the authenticity that it gave to that moment lasted with me."

Robot, an Oscar by way of Bohemian Rhapsody, a notable role in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and the honor of serving as the villain in the Broccoli family’s final James Bond film, No Time to Die. The Ken Nolan and Gary Spinelli-penned spy thriller chronicles a CIA analyst named Charlie Heller, as he avenges his wife’s ( Rachel Brosnahan) terror-related death in rather unconventional ways for the genre. That day might come, but right now, the fact that I got my foot in the door by producing a film alongside Hutch Parker and Dan Wilson, with major studios like Disney and 20th Century, is a feat.

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