“It comes down to trust and understanding.” — Actor / director Dexter Fletcher of Terminal, Bohemian Rhapsody & Rocketman
I caught up with the great Dexter Fletcher for our second interview on the noirthriller Terminal out now, after my prior chat with writer/director Vaughn Steinwhich you can read here along with Conner Morris’s review of the film here.
Dexter has quite the acting chops, with his first part being as “Baby Face” in 1976’s Bugsy Malone, and his most well-known early part in 1989’s Press Gang. Yet, arguably Fletcher’s most well-known and loved part came in 1998 when he played “Soap” in Guy Ritchie’s breakout comedic British crime caper Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
Dexter and I chat the craft of acting, a bit of his influences overall and behind his older (wiser?) hitman character “Vincent” in Terminal (and the dynamic with fellow actor Max Irons, who plays the younger hitman character “Alfred” ) and a bit about his up-coming directorial projects Bohemian Rhapsody (the Freddie…