Benicio del Toro Threw Out ‘Sicario’ Dialogue During Filming, Surprising Roger and James Deakins

Benicio del Toro earned widespread critical acclaim for his supporting turn in Denis Villeneuve’s “Sicario,” a performance in which the “Traffic” Oscar winner builds nerve-wracking tension through long silences and intimidating gazes.

Del Toro’s assassin character is a man of few words, and it turns out part of the reason is because the actor felt like he didn’t need any script to do his job for him.

On this week’s “Team Deakins” podcast, Roger Deakins and his longtime collaborator and wife James Deakins revealed that del Toro would often consult “Sicario” director Denis Villeneuve about throwing out dialogue he could simply act with his body.“It’s such a stronger film if you let the story be told not only through the actors or whatever but also the framing because then everything is working in sync,” James Deakins said.

“The film is telling you but it

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