Four years before Wes Anderson‘s “The Phoenician Scheme” premiered at Cannes on May 18, the idea for the film was born at the festival as the visionary director presented “The French Dispatch.” Benicio del Toro had a small yet memorable role in the movie as an imprisoned artist, but Anderson wanted more for the Oscar-winning actor.
“I had a sort of image in my mind of Benicio playing a Euro business tycoon,” Anderson told Variety via email. “As if he has walked out of an Antonioni movie with his sunglasses.”
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