Yahoo News Tim Roth says it's "hard to make a movie" that's not a superhero blockbuster
He might have appeared in Marvel's The Incredible Hulk, but a decade on and Tim Roth feels as though superhero blockbusters might be having a negative impact on Hollywood filmmaking.
The Oscar-nominated actor is reprising his role of Jim Worth, a sheriff forced to rely on a violent alter ego to get revenge on those who hurt his family, in the second series of Sky Atlantic's Tin Star.
"It's hard to make a movie now that's not got somebody wearing a cape in it," he told Digital Spy. "It seems to be that way."
Reflecting on his own appearance as Emil Blonsky / The Abomination in the MCU, Roth quipped: "I was a very large, brown monster – there was no cape!"
His fellow Tin Star cast-member Genevieve O'Reilly disagreed, though. The actress, who plays Jim's tortured wife Angela and appeared as Mon Mothma in the Star Wars film series, insisted that "wonderful films" are still coming out of Hollywood.
"We're in the middle of awards season and I think there are wonderful films right now being held up," said O'Reilly. "I think there's beautiful, intimate work being done. So it is available in every medium. A good story, well told, is what audiences are after."
Back in 2017, Roth insisted that he "wasn't looking for a TV show, really" when he was originally sent the scripts for Tin Star.
"I read a couple of scripts and I thought they were bonkers, and that immediately gets my attention," he explained. "It was just anarchy on the page. The minute I thought I knew what was going on, it was something different."
Tin Star returns to Sky Atlantic tomorrow night (Thursday, January 24) at 9pm.
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