Not what they seem: John Hamm as Laramie Seymour Sullivan, Jeff Bridges as Father Daniel Flynn and Cynthia Erivo as Darlene Sweet. Embarking for once on a solo project, Goddard comes on like a performer keen to step into the spotlight, while retaining a tendency, visible across much of his past work, to view individuals as pawns manipulated by hidden, sinister forces. In this light, maybe it's more than coincidence that one of the central characters in El Royale is a gifted but neglected backing singer named Darlene Sweet (Cynthia Erivo), presumably modelled on real-life pop and soul singer Darlene Love. Until now, though, it's been hard to get a handle on where his personal interests lie, given his tendency to team up with better-known talents such as Joss Whedon, the co-writer and creative instigator of Goddard's debut feature The Cabin in the Woods. Credit: Twentieth Century FoxĪllegory is the stock-in-trade of Goddard, a veteran manipulator of pop culture tropes whose credits include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the found-footage monster movie Cloverfield, and more recently the metaphysical sitcom The Good Place. Chris Hemsworth has his moments as Billy Lee in Bad Times at the El Royale.
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