“Jon Bernthal was someone that I did not know,” Ava admitted. “He flew out to Savannah to meet me when I was in pre-production. And I thought, ‘This is a real serious actor who cares about these issues that we’re exploring in the film,’ and wanted to come to the film to be of service to Aunjanue [and] to the story. They had worked together before on King Richard.”
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