TEASER - 125: Sexy Beast (with Dan Siber)

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Dan Siber, an avid listener of the show and a Junk Filter patron, pitched his way on to the show for a discussion of Jonathan Glazer’s British crime drama Sexy Beast (2000), which is getting a prequel streaming series on Paramount+ this fall.

Sexy Beast stands apart from the other cool British crime films of the period because the film is not so easy to classify: it swings across genres like comedy, suspense and psychological horror, as our hero Gal Dove (Ray Winstone), a retired ex-con living in sunny Spain, is pulled back for one last job in London for a criminal syndicate by two different psychopaths: the relentlessly menacing hatchetman Don Logan (Oscar-nominated Ben Kingsley), and the Final Boss, crime lord Teddy Bass (Ian McShane) who is ultimately even more terrifying than Logan.

We talk about the psychology of these characters, this film’s exploration of class, crime and power, how influential Sexy Beast must have been on Christopher Nolan, and what we might expect from the upcoming prequel series.

UK trailer for Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer, 2000)

Don Logan Band Aid 20 commercial directed by Glazer, 2004